66 Propagation and Training of Plants. 



CHAPTER XI. 



THE PROPAGATION AND TRAINING OF PLANTS. 



have some knowledge of the training and 

 propagation of plants is very necessary. A 

 few simple rules are all that you require, as 



taste and circumstances must guide you a great deal in 

 this matter. Plants of a slender growth such as 

 Fuchsias, Pelargoniums, Petunias, &c., should be staked 

 with neat wooden stakes painted green. When staking 

 keep the stakes behind the plant or branches to keep 

 them .out of sight a little. A pot of annuals such as 

 mignonette may have four small stakes round the pot 

 at equal distances, and small twine looped round them 

 to keep the plants up. Primulas or Chinese Primroses, 

 having slender necks, should have three little pins 

 round their necks to keep them steady. Calceolarias 

 will require every flowering branch staked to make 

 handsome specimens, but four stakes the same as 

 recommended for mignonette will do. Hyacinths and 

 tulips are better staked with wire than wooden stakes, 

 as it does not look so clumsy for such beautiful 

 flowers. 



Plants of a trailing habit, such as Clematis, Petunias, 



