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SSSffi- THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March , 1909 



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Rooting Cuttings on the Kitchen 

 Stove 



I HAVE found it so hard to root slips or 

 cuttings in wet sand in the house in 

 the ordinary way that I have been trying 

 a new method by utilizing the heat from the 

 stove to help the rooting of geraniums and 

 salvias. A large saucer belonging to a com- 

 mon earthen flower-pot was filled with two- 

 thirds sand and one-third rich potting soil. 

 This was made very wet, and after the cut- 

 tings were inserted the saucer was set on 

 two bricks laid side by side on the back of 

 the kitchen range, where the fire is kept night 

 and day. The temperature of the bricks 

 during the day averaged 78 degrees. A 

 piece of sheet iron was put between the 

 saucer and the stove pipe, and if the fire 

 became very hot the saucer was placed for 

 a while on a shelf back of the stove. The 

 first few days the soil was kept wet, after 

 that only moist. A 10-inch saucer wi'l hold 

 twenty-five cuttings. 



The two geraniums that provided the 

 slips were old ones that had been taken up 

 the preceding fall. The salvia slips were 

 from a plant that was also lifted very late 

 in the season. When it was cut back the 



How an amateur can give "bottom heat" in rooting 

 cuttings of geranium, salvia, etc. 



