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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1913 



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Propagating Perennials from 

 Cuttings 



BY FAR the simplest way to accumulate 

 quickly a large stock of certain perennials 

 is by means of cuttings. In some cases, as com- 

 pared with seed, they put you at least a year ahead 

 of the game. 



Begin in June. First find a place for them. 

 If the seedbed that always ought to be a garden 

 adjunct is still occupied, make a bed near by or in the 

 vegetable garden. This should be about four feet 

 wide, and as long as the season's needs seem likely 

 to demand. Mark rows across, eight inches or so 

 apart, and then go to your garden, or your neigh- 

 bors' gardens — perhaps both — for your cuttings. 



Grass pinks (Dianthus plumarius) ought to be a 

 staple of every bed devoted to "slips." It is well 

 enough to use seed to get variety, but, aside from 

 the saving of time, you can be sure of perpetuating 

 choice kinds only by using cuttings. When the 

 grass pinks are in bloom, the foliage tufts that 

 make the cuttings are ready to be taken. That is 

 the best time if there is any question of later identifi- 

 cation; otherwise, take the cuttings as soon as the 

 flowering season is past. The cuttings should not 

 be cut off but pulled away gently by grasping be- 

 tween the fingers near the main stem that carries 

 the tufts. This gives a good end for rooting. Bury 

 the cuttings in the rows nearly up to where the 

 leaves begin and allow six inches between the plants 

 in the rows. Sprinkle well, see that the ground 

 does not dry out later, and if the sun seems too hot 

 at first, shade with laths during the heat of the day. 

 These pinks will bloom the following June and a 

 year later be large plants. After the third year 

 grass pinks are apt to get scraggly and then would 

 better give way to young stock. For that reason 

 it is well to take cuttings of grass pinks every year 

 and keep a fresh stock constantly going. Transfer 

 the new plants to the gardens either in the fall or 

 in early spring. The spicy old-fashioned double 

 white and double pale pink are so fine for the vases 

 that they should be grown in large quantities; if 

 the border has room for only a few, run a row along 

 the edge of the vegetable garden. 



What has been said of grass pinks applies almost 

 exactly to a number of other hardy border plants 

 that either grow in tufts or cover the ground as 

 with a carpet. The white rock cress (Arabis al- 

 bida); that is indispensable to the garden in spring, 

 roots readily by following the same directions as 

 to taking the cuttings and planting them; so does 



The white rock cress (Arabia ulbida), easily propa- 

 gated, is indispensable to the garden in spring 



the related false wall cress, Aubrietia dclloidea. 

 Other plants easily raised from cuttings are Phlox 

 amwna, Penlstemon barbatus, var. Torreyii, Veronica 

 incana, Campanula Carpatica, Mentha alpina, San- 

 tolina Chamcecyparissus and all of the creeping stone 

 crops. 



Some of the perennials so frequently provide 

 cuttings either rooted or as good as rooted that I 

 usually, in such cases, avail myself of nature's help. 

 I take what I call rooted cuttings of the hardy 

 chrysanthemums; also of Veronica spicata, Phlox 

 ovata, Vinca minor, California violet, Stachys lanata, 

 creeping thyme and doronicum, planting them in 

 rows like the regular cuttings. 



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