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D. Cooperi and D. terminalis, do not root so certainly without losing 
their leaves when the heads are cut and inserted. If these are taken 
they should not be confined in the propagating frame or under hand- 
lights unless the lights are tilted to prevent the foliage damping, an evil 
slower, but no less certain method of ringing them and binding the stem 
above with moss. If the stem is well cut in the first instance, the plant 
shaded afterwards, and the moss kept moist, roots at this period of the 
year will be quickly emitted from the stem, when more moss or lumps of 
which is very apt to occur. The greatest success can be attained by in¬ 
serting them, and then plunging the pots in a shaded house where the 
atmosphere is close and moist ; the leaves do not damp under these con¬ 
ditions. Those unfamiliar with the process of cutting the heads and 
rooting them according to the directions given may follow the older, 
peat may be added, and finally the top taken. When they are first takers 
off the heads should be treated for ten days or a fortnight the same as. 
advised above for rooting heads, by which time they will be established 
in their pots, and may occupy a position with the general stock. Pot 
young plants as they need more root space. Dracaenas grow rapidly in 
