SECT* V. 



QF PROPAGATION. 



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bv fuckers, confider that all young roots are tender, 

 let them be crimmed to form, and planted immediately, 

 or at leaft let them be covered with earth or laid by 

 the heels, as it is called. Suckers with poor roots, 

 niuft have their heads reduced the more. 



Propagation by flips is of two forts, either from the 

 root, or Jhm ; and feveral forts of flowers and herbs are 

 increafed this way. When from the roots (if the whole 

 is not taken up) move the earth carefully afide, and Hip 

 off by a pre flu re of the thumb and finger, and be 

 cautious of hurting the fibres of the (lips, planting with 

 fine and good mould about them. Take off flips from 

 the Jiem carefully by a pufli of the thumb, and not too 

 many from the fame plant, as it is apt to injure the 

 place by tearing off fome of the wood. Slips from the 

 Item are to be confidered as cuttings, and treated accord- 

 ingly. They take more certainly, and make better 

 roots than cuttings. 



■Offset is a term fometimes applied to flips from 

 fibrous roots; but more properly fb from bulbous roots, 

 which put forth many offsets. Thefe are (lipped away 

 at the time they are taken up for removal or replant- 

 ing, and commonly take two or three years before 

 they bear flowers: difpofe of them therefore in a 

 nurjery^ where they may remain undifturbed while they 

 come to a flowering ftate; keep them however clean 

 from weeds, and ftir the ground a little. 



Divifion of the roots is a way of propagating many 

 forts of plants. To this end (of courfej they muff be 

 taken up, and then either carefully pulled, or cut 

 afunder with a fharp inftrument; as the cafe may re- 

 quire. It is not fafe, however, to divide fuch mots into 

 very fmall pieces, (efpecially if cut), as then they are 

 apt to die; but leave them of a fize fufhcient, not 

 barely to fecure life, but to form immediately a hand- 

 fome head. The general feafon for thus fplitting fibrous 

 rooted plants, is Qclober, but it may be done' early in 

 the fpring, as February. 



Cuttings 



