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The Cutting. 
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Ineeots, Injurious and Otherwise. 
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Inourved Varieties. 
Taking the Buds and Housing the Plants. 
Indoor Treatment 
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Taking Cuttings of Pelargoniums. 
The Zonal Pelargonium is such an ac¬ 
commodating plant.that it may practically 
be propagated at any season of the year, 
but there are undoubtedly periods at which 
it can be more successfully propagated 
than others. The principal times are 
March and April in spring and August 
and September in autumn. The last 
period is that adopted for taking cuttings 
in quantity for bedding purposes in the 
following spring. Plants may, however, 
be reared for bedding purposes even in 
spring by those who have accommodation 
in the way of a little bottom heat which 
is necessary to stimulate the cuttings into 
fresh growth, to favour the production of 
roots and to prevent the fleshy stems from 
damping in a cold wet soil. 
The piece of stem on the left-hand of 
with every hope of success. The low 
portion should be cut away just below tl 
lowest joint,- and the leaf should also 1 
removed The top of the stem may al. 
be removed close down to the bud in d 
axil of the leaf. 
On turning now to the cutting insertf 
in a pot of sandy soil, it may be said 
this is intended for pot culture the t< 
should be removed just above the base 
the second leaf. This should be doi 
after it is rooted. On the right-hand 
the top a bunch of flowers still in bud m: 
be observed, and all of those that a 
conveniently be laid hold of between tl 
finger and thumb should be removed whe 
making the cutting. 
It is a frequent practice to allow your 
plants like this to grow unchecked, tl 
Making a cutting of Pelargonium.. Cutting of Pelargonium inserted 
in a -pot. 
the accompanying illustration shows what 
can be done in the production of cuttings 
for spring bedding, or even to get a batch 
of plants for pot culture during summer 
to bloom in a warm greenhouse during 
autumn and winter. Readers will thus ob¬ 
serve that preparation must be made a 
long time ahead if good results are to be 
expected. The plants require to be grown 
to some size, stopped several times and 
prevented from flowering till the desired 
time in autumn. By this time the pots 
should be well filled with roots, as upon 
that depends successful flowering in 
winter. 
The top of the cutting represented may 
be taken off by cutting it just below a 
joint at A. The lowest leaf is removed, 
and the cutting is then ready for insertion 
in pots of sandy soil, or in a propagating 
bed of sand, if the cultivator has that con¬ 
venience. If stock is wanted for bedding 
purposes the lower portion of the shoot 
illustrated may also be used as a cutting 
result at the end of the season in mar 
cases being one long straggling sten 
Plants grown in pots should alwiys 1 
bushy, and with that object in view tl 
cultivator has his plant entirely under coi 
trol if taken in hand from the earliest stag' 
The distance between the lower leavs 
and the youngest one is not always 5 
great as in the illustration. Cuttings take 
from well grown plants have shorter join 
so that assuming that the lower three leave 
were all close together, the tip could the 
be pinched out with the finger and thurn 
as soon as the plant is rooted, and ind 
cates this by the growth made. Sic 
shoots will then be produced, and those i 
turn may be stopped in the same wa 
after they have made a few leaves. B 
this means a dwarf habited and busb 
plant can be obtained, and the ultimal 
results will prove in every way satisfat 
tory. If allowed to get tall, young plan' 
never assume the same desirable hab 
afterward, but become more or less 1 egg] 
