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of leaves, and then to be cut off just under the second 

 pair and above the lowest pair. When one cutting 

 is taken off, plenty of others follow, and these are to 

 be served the same ; there must be care used that the 

 cuttings taken off are from three to four inches long 

 and that a pair of leaves are left below, for at every 

 leaf there is an embryo bud which will form a shoot, 

 which shoot will in turn yield a cutting and its two 

 other embryo buds. The cuttings, when taken off, 

 may be struck the same as shoots, but they do not 

 take root so rapidly. It must depend on the room 

 you have whether you will plant a dozen cuttings 

 round a 48-sized pot, or put one cutting each into 

 twelve small ones ; in one case but little room is taken 

 np while they are striking, and this is often of import- 

 ance. When they have struck root they must be 

 potted singly into 60-sized pots, or thumb-pots, kept 

 in heat a few days to establish them, and then replaced 

 under some kind of protection till planting time. 

 (Gard, arid Flor. ii. 25.) 



Mr. Fyffe, gardener at Milton Rectory, Bedford- 

 shire, also recommends this mode of propagation. 

 He says, from the newest sorts which have been pur- 

 chased from the nursery (and which, in most cases, 

 are cuttings), after they are established, or as soon as 

 you can take a cutting without hurting the plant, take 

 the small side shoots (the more stubbed the better), 

 and pot them, as is commonly done with the shoots 

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