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HARDY PERENNIALS 
superfluous moisture which will otherwise condense 
on the under side of the glass. Under such con- 
ditions watering, after the first good soaking, 
will not be frequently needed. If an exceptionally 
warm day or two during Autumn causes the cuttings 
to show signs of limpness, a slight spraying with a 
fine-nozzled syringe or gentle application through 
a fine-rosed watering-can may be given early enough 
in the afternoon 
for the foliage to 
become fairly dry 
again before night- 
fall. Of course no 
young cu 1 1 i n g s 
should ever be 
given anything in 
the way of man- 
ure-water or fer- 
tilizers. Such 
stimulants cannot 
help the formation 
of roots but would most probably destroy those that 
are forming. 
Basal growths of Violas and Pansies may often 
be stripped from old plants with a certain number 
of young roots attached. These may be inserted 
in a cutting bed without trimming, but any young 
shoots two to three inches long may be cut square 
at the base of a leaf-joint and inserted as ordinary 
cuttings, first removing the leaves from the lower 
Cuttings of Strong Growing Plants 
inserted in a sheltered border. 
Many things may be thus propagated without 
THE AID OF Glass. 
