Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . , it must not be imaginedthat it is necessary tomake tlie cutting at ajoint. The doing awaywith this custom inpropagating Roses en-ables us to increase theproduct of a plant atleast twice as much asif we practised underthis dogma, for tiie cut-ting will root just aswell, and become quiteas good a plant, if made with a single eye, (figureFier. 26,—rose with single eye. ^c \ c x. j. • • ^^ ^b,) as II cut at a joint having two or three eyes, (figure 27). Although we have s
Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . , it must not be imaginedthat it is necessary tomake tlie cutting at ajoint. The doing awaywith this custom inpropagating Roses en-ables us to increase theproduct of a plant atleast twice as much asif we practised underthis dogma, for tiie cut-ting will root just aswell, and become quiteas good a plant, if made with a single eye, (figureFier. 26,—rose with single eye. ^c \ c x. j. • • ^^ ^b,) as II cut at a joint having two or three eyes, (figure 27). Although we have said that cuttings can be as easily rooted without being cut at a joint as otherwise, yet there are, in some plants, other considerations that necessitate that they should never be cut except at a joint; for example, a Dahlia cutting will root quite as freely, make as fine a flowering plant in fall, and the tuberous root increase to its full size; but it will not be able to start again in spring, because the Dahlia pushes only from the crown of the root, and if the crown has not been formed from a cutting cut close. 94 PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. below a joint, as in figure 28, it is worthless, as the tubersand crown formed without an eye possess no latent ordormant buds; hence the importance of always makingDahlia cuttings by cutting immediately below an eye, ifthe roots are loanted for future i(se. In cases where in is desired to make the most of newpants, we sometimessplit the cuttings, asshown in figure method, however,is not generally desir-able, and we questionif, except in cases ofCalceolarias, and a fewother plants of likecharacter, it is everworthy of practice. If a plant is perpet-uated by cuttings withdifficulty, Ave usuallyfind it is freely increas-ed in some other way ;thus the Cyclamen,Myrsiphyllum, somevarieties of Cleroden-dron, etc., are slow to
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