VARIOUS WAYS OF GROWING PLANTS 



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may be started from leaves. A triangular piece is cut off, 

 and one side is set in the wet sand. Or the leaf may be laid 



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Fig. 47. — Begonia leaf-cutting. Small plants are starting when the leaf 

 has been pegged down. 



on the sand, face up, and pegged down through the veins. 

 At these broken veins, or at cut places on the edges, similarly 

 held to the sand, plants will spring up. 



Fig. 48. — Planting Hardwood Cuttings. 



Set the upper bud near the surface. A trench makes it easier to plant 

 cuttings taken with a " heel " of older wood. 



