PROPAGATING DEVICES. 



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at that point. Various device.s are employed for the ]nir- 

 pose of securing these advantages to the best effect. These 



are usually 

 double pots, 

 in one of 

 which water 

 IS placed. A 

 ^ood method 

 is that rep- 

 resented in 

 Figure 56, 

 which shows 

 a pot, /;, 

 plugged with 

 plaster of 



I'ans at the bottom, placed inside a larger one. The 

 earth is placed between the two, drainage material occu- 

 pying the bottom, a, and fine soil the 



top. c. Water stands in the inner pot of ^hi^'^WK'-SjiJ' 

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as high as the dotted line, and feeds 

 unilormly into the surrounding soil. 

 The positions of the water and soil 

 are frequently reversed, but in that 

 case there is less space available fo,- 

 cuttings. A double pot, with moisture 

 supplied in a surrounding cushion of 



, . ' . _. 5^. Forsyth's ciUting- 



sphagnum moss, is seen m Fig. i. ' ,^^ 



Neumann's cutting-p(jt is shown in 



Fig. 57. This contains an inverted pot in the center, ir, 

 designed to supply drainage and to 

 admit heat into the center of the mass 

 of soil. A good method of striking 

 difficult subjects is as follows : Fill a 

 saucer with moss. Upon this place 

 an inverted flower-pot. Insert the 



57. Nemnann'^s cutting- ^^,jfjj^g, through the hole in the bot- 



