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EVERT W03fAN HER OWN FLOWER OARl)Ei\ER. 



loam shaded for a day, and then have all the sunshine it desires, if it 

 has also sufficient water, but you must not let it dry up. 



Cuttings of many plants can be readily started in water; and, in the 

 early spring, if you have not a green-house or hot-bed, it is tlie safest 

 plan. 



Fill small bottles or yials, with warmish water, remove the lower 

 leaves of the cuttings (be sure to have a bud at the base), and put them 

 in the water; hang up the vial to the window sash, tying a string about 

 the mouth, for this purpose. If cotton wool is put around the mouth 

 of the vial, it will prevent the evaporation of the water, and make the 

 roots sprout more quickly by keeping up a more even temperature. 

 Oleanders can be rooted in this manner; also Heliotropes, Verbenas, 

 Eoses, Fuchsias, and all kinds bedding-out plants. 



The process is so simple that a mere child can succeed with it. As 

 soon as the roots are an inch long, the cutting should be transplanted, 

 taking care to spread out the tiny rootlets as they grow in the water. 



Some fill up the bottle with rich earth, let it dry off for two or three 

 days and then break the glass, and pot or plant out the cutting without 

 disturbing its roots in the least degree. This is the most certain way 

 of obtaining plants from cuttings. 



