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are severed from the parent plant, and 
tire young ones are encouraged to make way 
on their own account; but the process is a 
somewhat tedious one, requiring a good deal of 
time, for unless the layered stems are well 
rooted before being cut away from the old 
plants, they are all but certain to dwindle away- 
The hard, wiry nature of the plants in all their 
several parts is such that they will not suc¬ 
ceed divided in small bits, in the way common 
with many Ferns. Hence it is that when an 
attempt is made to so increase them, it gener¬ 
ally ends in failure, even if the division takes 
place before growth has commenced. 
But although nicichenias will not submit to 
be thus subdivided into small pieces, yet when 
the plants get strong, they will bear cutting up 
to a moderate extent. This, indeed, becomes 
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