FRUIT PLANTATIONS AND THEIR CARE 



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ROOT CUTTING 



so treated in early spring, and so are currants and 

 gooseberries and many hardy shrubs for orna- 

 mental purposes. In many cases 

 the twigs are merely pushed into 

 the ground and the earth firmed 

 about them. 



For indoor cuttings a saucer 

 may be filled with sand and kept moist for such 

 green wood cuttings as geranium, carnation, 

 chrysanthemum, etc. When these have produced 

 roots they may be transplanted to little pots or 

 boxes and transplanted again from time to time as 

 the plants grow, and fill the pots 

 with roots. Always in making 

 green wood cuttings, it is advis- 

 able to cut close to a bud at the 

 lower surface, at least one half. 



A very convenient method of 

 securing rooted cuttings is to use 

 two flower pots, a large one with 

 gravel, broken pots or other ma- 

 terial in the bottom to form drain- 

 age, and then a smaller pot with the drainage hole 

 plugged to prevent leakage. This pot is then set 

 upon the drainage and the space between the two 

 pots filled with sand. Finally the inner pot is filled 

 with water and the cuttings placed in the sand 

 around its edge. 



For starting seedlings in the 

 greenhouse or in hotbeds, it is 

 often desirable to use flats, that 

 is, boxes not over 3 inches deep 

 and of any other convenient dimensions. These 

 boxes are filled almost full of soil and the seeds 

 sown therein. They are also useful for pricking 

 out seedlings of such plants as cabbage, cauliflower, 



FLOWER POT 

 Cutting Bed 



EYE CUTTING 



