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of young plants all well rooted long ago and pre- 
pared to make a grand start the instant you pot 
them off into nice little pots of light rich soil to 
grow. 
The cuttings strike very well put into a border 
anywhere. And almost any piece of stem that has 
a joint in it is tit to make a cutting of, and will 
speedily put out roots at the joint that is in the 
soil. I have known a bundle of old Fuchsia stems 
cut into lengths for flower-sticks and left by acci- 
dent lying in a heap of soil and leaves — and, lo and 
behold, when spring came the sticks were growing ! 
Now too is the latest time for cuttings or pipings 
of Pinks and Carnations. These are often put in 
in June, but August in some respects is perhaps 
more secure, unless we have been able to make up 
a slight hotbed, which the Carnations would like 
very much. 
The fresh healthy young shoots make the nicest 
plants, cut off at the third joint — which is perhaps 
three inches long. The securest way of planting 
them is perhaps in pots in a hotbed, the pots 
having a layer of sand at the top of the mould, 
and that sand being wet. I have had some dozen 
pots thus filled in July or August without perhaps 
the loss of more than a single cutting. They soon 
