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the size of tlie bottom is fitted in each case, filled with water, and heated by the 
flame of either a lamp or gas jet beneath. The top is of glass and can be lifted 
at any time fresh air is needed. A thermometer completes the equipment. It 
is very simple and successful. The heat can be run up to any desired point and 
the lady who uses it can soon initiate heiself into the mysteries and practice 
of rooting, cutting and propagating fine bedding plants. 
Fig. 19 is a propagating box made of earthen ware, with grooves in the top 
for a pane of glass to slide up and down with a cover. The heat thus generated 
can be retained for a considerable length of time by closing the glass top. They 
are very suitable for starting soft wooded cuttings in sand. 
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A forcing stand may be erected like this in Fig.20. It consists of a wrought 
iron frame of ornamental design with two stories. In each story there is a row of 
double pans, the bottom one containing water which is heated by a patent kero.sene 
lamp, keeping the temperature of the inner pan about 100°. In this inner pan 
are placed mould, sand or loam, wherein the pots are plunged. The heat of the 
water is communicated directly through the sand to the cutting or seeds which 
will germinate in a few days. 
All cultivators need to know that for propagating 
purposes, there is needed heat and moisture, and to 
be succes,sful you need a greater bottom heat than sur- 
face heat, and also, still, quiet atmosphere. 
If this case is used in a room where the tempera, 
ture is usually quite inild, no glass covering will bi.> 
needed; still if it isneeded, a case like that described 
in the former pari of this chapter may be constructed 
for each shelf. If pots are used in these little casosi 
they should be very small, not over two inches in di 
ameter. 
Such little contrivances as these render it compara- 
tively easy for any lady to raise her own Verbenas, 
Pelaigoniums, or other simple plants, and would undoubtedly do more lo 
p.eascan<l instruct children and visitors, by way of amusement, than the whole 
apparatus originally cost. 
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