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frame, and not tubers enough to fill it ; in such case 

 the tubers may be struck in the same frame. In 

 some cases there may be exceptions, but generally 

 speaking there will be three or four shoots come round 

 the place from which the first is taken, so that there 

 will be a constant succession ; the number to take off 

 daily will be increased, and the same process is to be 

 continued to the whole, until the grower finds he has 

 enough, when he may throw away the tubers, or part 

 them into as many pieces as there are shoots or eyes 

 remaining, giving a portion of the tuber to each shoot, 

 and these portions of tubers may be cut shorter to 

 adapt them to as small a pot as possible, but the base 

 of the shoot must be planted under the surface, for a 

 new tuber will be formed from the base of the shoot 

 above the piece of old tuber, and the portion of the 

 old one attached to the shoot will support it until the 

 new one is sufficient to do so ; when planting-time 

 comes, the operation is much the same in all cases, 

 {Gardener and Florist, ii. 25.) 



Cuttings from forced shoots. — The above directions 

 are chiefly from the pen of Mr. Glenny, and the same 

 good floricultural authority gives the following equally 

 correct information relative to raising plants from 

 cuttings of the shoots so forced. The directions given 

 are equally applicable to cuttings from shoots pro- 

 duced in the open air during summer. The shoots 

 are to be allowed to grow until they have three pair 



