SPECIMENS OF VASES. 



241 



The Conservator}', being the highest in grade of all plant-structures, 

 requires the greatest nicety and care in keeping ; a dead leaf, insect, or 

 broken or displaced branch should at no time appear. The propagation 

 of Conservatory plants, so as to secure a succession, is a work of some 

 importance, and Trill require to be performed at various seasons, as the 

 cuttings should be put in just when the young shoots begin to assume 

 a ripe, brownish colour, and are acquiring a firm texture. There are, 

 however, many species of plants which cannot be propagated by cuttings, 

 but which must either be increased by grafting, budding, layering, inarch- 

 ing, or by the more natural method of sowing the seeds. There are also 

 many kinds which may be propagated by dividing the roots. 



The plants which should be admitted into the Conservator}^ may be 

 selected from those already enumerated in the foregoing pages, and from 

 amongst them a verj- complete selection may be formed. 



R 



