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: FIG. 3. If quantities of cuttings are 
The cuttings may be taken off required it is best to make this 
with a “heel” of old root, as kind of cutting—severing the 
shown here, if only a few are shoot below a joint and remov- 
wanted. ing the lowest pair of leaves. 
FIG. 6. 
Another method of propagation is to 
divide the old roots as soon as growth 
begins. 
FIG. 5. 
ting inserted in soil in w 
ane isl flower pot. shoot potted up. 
HOW TO GROW DAHLIAS. 
Piece of old root with young 
