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THE BOOK OF GARDENING. 



may 

 the 



be so arranged that the plant may be had in flower, or 

 egetable ready for use, by the time it is required. 



Methods of Cutting. — Terminal Cuttings of soft- and hard- 

 wooded plants are the best; and, as long as these are available, no 



others should be used, for they have 

 the great advantage of growing much 

 quicker, having only roots to make. 

 This remark applies to both the soft- 

 and the hard-wooded species. Some 

 plants {Coffea, for example) are nearly 

 always propagated by terminal cuttings, 

 for if lateral branches have been selected, 

 they ve^y seldom give rise to a head 

 growth. This is also the case with 

 several ConifercB {Araucaria excelsa, for 

 example), which can only be successfully 

 increased by this mode. Fig. 622 show^s 

 a cutting of Eiionymiis japoniciis made 

 from the terminal shoot of a branch 

 and ready for insertion. It is sometimes 

 necessary to remove the bottom leaves 

 of a cutting, chiefly in the case of soft- 



FiG. 622. — Hakd-wooded 

 Cutting of Euonymus 

 japonicus. 



them 



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m 



be 

 be 

 the 



wooded plants, as this enables 

 be more easily inserted. 



This mode of cutting, which is, 

 reality, a herbaceous cutting, could, without any difficulty, 

 divided into several groups. . First, for plants which can 

 propagated with growing growth not fully developed, as is 

 case with Allamandas, Medinellas, Ixoras, &c., cuttings of which, 

 when placed in a close heat, root very quickly; secondly, for 

 plants requiring for propagation a fully developed and herbaceous 

 wood, which also need to be treated in a 

 very close temperature, for the action of air 

 them very easily (as examples, the 

 Theobroma [Cocoa Tree], Coiiroiipita 

 &c., may be mentioned); and, 

 plants such as Nepenthes, which 

 are more successfully propagated with growing 

 than with ripened w^ood. 



Eye-Cuttings are generally used in the propa- 

 gation of the vine. The method consists in 

 removing a part containing one eye from a 

 previous year's wood, which must be cut as 

 shown in Fig. 623. Such cuttings vary in length 

 from lin. to 3in. ; they should be inserted 

 separately in small pots or in pans, but in the 

 rooted, they must be potted up. Fig. 624 

 eye-cuttings root and start when placed on 



will mjure 

 well-known 

 guyanensis, 

 thirdly, for 



■IG. 



623. — Vine 

 Eye. 



strong 



latter case, when 

 shows how the 

 bottom-heat. 



