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to become entirely empty. By setting the cuttings close 

 to the rim of the inside pot, a bell glass may be used for 

 coTering the cuttings, thereby insuring a close, moist at- 

 mosphere, and preventing too rapid evaporation of the 

 juices of the cuttings through their leaves. By employ- 

 ing larger pots and filling them about half full of sand, 

 the cuttings may be covered with a large pane of window 

 glass, laid flat on the top of the pot. Boxes six to eight 

 inches in depth may be employed in a similar manner, 

 and often with excellent results, for cuttings of Gerani- 

 ums, Coleuses, Puschias, and other kinds of plants that 

 are readily propagated from green cuttings. With plants 

 that are not so easily propagated, 

 a similar arrangement of the pots 

 may be employed, and the space 

 between the two filled with moss, 

 tan, or even sand, and the center 

 one also filled with sand, placing 

 the cuttings in this, instead of 

 around it, as in the preceding ar- 

 rangement, employing two bell 

 glasses, as shown in figure 63 — a, 

 the larger bell glass ; S, the inner, 

 or smaller one ; c, cutting ; d, sand 

 in the inner pot ; e e, filled space 

 between the pots ; /, the outer, or larger pot. With this 

 device, and proper attention for securing a temperature of 

 seventy to eighty degrees Fahrenheit, cuttings of many 

 kinds of plants usually considered quite difficult to propa- 

 gate, may be forced to produce roots in a few days or 

 weeks. 



Many other devices are employed in propagating plants 

 from green cuttings, but the principles governing the 

 operation are the same in all, and while the propagator's 

 ingenuity or fancy may lead him to vary the mode of 

 doing a thing, he seeks only the rapid production of roots. 



T\%. 63. — DOUBLE BELL 

 GLASS FOB CUTTINGS. 



