168 PROPAGATION OF PLANTS. 



large end of the dibber. After filling the box, the cuttings 

 may be spi-inkled with water, which will aid further in 

 compacting the sand about the base of the cuttings. 



The professional florist, with the conyeniences for 

 propagating plants in quantities, will seldom have occa- 

 sion to employ anything of less size than boxes holding 

 several dozen or a hundred cuttings, but the amateur may 

 often have occasion to raise a less number of plants of 

 certain species or varieties, and in doing so have recourse 

 to ordinary flower-pots for this purpose, placing them in 

 a window, or by the side of some building or board fence,, 

 where the requisite amount of heat may be obtained dur- 

 ing the summer months. 



When green cuttings are set in pots filled with .sand, 

 and placed in the window of an ordinary room in sum- 

 mer, or even plunged in a 

 half-shady place in the open 

 ground, they are very likely 

 to be occasionally neglected, 

 hence suffer for want of mois- 

 ture. To prevent this, and 

 insure a constant and regular 

 supply, the device shown 

 in figure 62 is frequently em- 

 „. „„ ployed. In this two pots 



Fig. 63.— DOUBLE POT FOB ^ "' . ■ ■ t „ ,i 



CUTTINGS. ^^^ used, one mside of the 



other, with sufficient differ- 

 ence in their sizes to leave a space between, which is 

 filled with sand, c c, and into this the cuttings are in- 

 serted. The hole in the bottom of the inner or smaller 

 pot is stopped with a cork, and the pot is then employed 

 as a reservoir for holding water, d. If the smaller pot 

 is of the ordinary unglazed kind, enough water will per- 

 colate through the sides and bottom to keep the sand 

 fairly moist, but never saturated. -The small, inner pot 

 should be kept filled with water, or at least not be allowed 



