. The school garden book. School gardens. either horizontally or with the lower end down. Some hardy perennial flowering plants are also propagated by root cuttings. If you will cut a few of the thick roots of a clump of Per- ennial Phlox this fall, then next spring lift the clump for division, you will find that buds have de- veloped on the cut ends of the ^tem Cutting, Begonia. severed roots. If carefully planted, these will give new plants of the same varieties. A somewhat similar method of propagation by cuttings is illustrated in the case of the common potato, which is a tuber, or thicken
. The school garden book. School gardens. either horizontally or with the lower end down. Some hardy perennial flowering plants are also propagated by root cuttings. If you will cut a few of the thick roots of a clump of Per- ennial Phlox this fall, then next spring lift the clump for division, you will find that buds have de- veloped on the cut ends of the ^tem Cutting, Begonia. severed roots. If carefully planted, these will give new plants of the same varieties. A somewhat similar method of propagation by cuttings is illustrated in the case of the common potato, which is a tuber, or thickened underground branch, whose eyes are buds. When planted, each potato is commonly cut into several pieces in order that many new plants may develop from a sin- gle tuber. Each one of the parts thus cut off is a tuber cutting. Even leaf cuttings may be made in the case of several kinds of house plants. This is one of the best ways of propagat- ing certain sorts. A good example is the gloxinia, the leafstems of which root readily in water or in moist sand, while buds form on the leaf ribs. The thick leaves of many of the begonias also take root readily, and the leaves are commonly utilized for growing new plants. Early in autumn it is possible for any one to start a fine garden in-doors with Gloxinia Leaf Cutting. slight cxpensc. Most of the tender plants. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Weed, Clarence Moores, 1864-1947; Emerson, Philip, 1865-. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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