May. 
79 
The Begonias, Verbenas, Petunias, Salvias, 
Mimulus, and Calceolarias I think answer best in 
saucers or soup-plates ’ of sand with water poured 
upon it till you see the water above the sand. 
You can then stick in the tiny cuttings as closely 
as you like- — about an inch apart — and if you have 
a greenhouse, or a warm window, or a warm light 
place to put them in they will grow very fast 
indeed. I have heard of people putting plants 
over hot-air pipes or flues, only the benefit of this 
is lost if they are not in light places. A flue in a 
greenhouse does splendidly for such things to 
stand on, with a little sand underneath the pots if 
the flue gives much heat. By when the water is 
dried up the little plants will have struck root 
beautifully, and you must make the sand quite 
wet again before you attempt transplanting them. 
When you do this you take up each little bunchy 
plant, and hold it in a hole in a small pot of soil 
while you fill the hole up with dry white sand all 
round it, watering it and shading it. The cut- 
tings that you grow in pots of soil are generally 
those of a stouter sort — as, for instance, the 
scarlet Tom Thumb Geranium. These may be 
shaded a little the first few days, and they will also 
require to be watered. 
