. The propagation of plants ; giving the principles which govern the development and growth of plants, their botanical affinities and peculiar properties; also, descriptions of the process by which varieties and species are crossed or hybridized, and the many different methods by which cultivated plants may be propagated and multiplied . Plant propagation. BT CUTTINGS OF IMMATURE GROWTHS. 169 to become entirely empty. By setting the cuttings close to the rim of the inside pot, a bell glass may be used for coTering the cuttings, thereby insuring a close, moist at- mosphere, and preventing too r
. The propagation of plants ; giving the principles which govern the development and growth of plants, their botanical affinities and peculiar properties; also, descriptions of the process by which varieties and species are crossed or hybridized, and the many different methods by which cultivated plants may be propagated and multiplied . Plant propagation. BT CUTTINGS OF IMMATURE GROWTHS. 169 to become entirely empty. By setting the cuttings close to the rim of the inside pot, a bell glass may be used for coTering the cuttings, thereby insuring a close, moist at- mosphere, and preventing too rapid evaporation of the juices of the cuttings through their leaves. By employ- ing larger pots and filling them about half full of sand, the cuttings may be covered with a large pane of window glass, laid flat on the top of the pot. Boxes six to eight inches in depth may be employed in a similar manner, and often with excellent results, for cuttings of Gerani- ums, Coleuses, Puschias, and other kinds of plants that are readily propagated from green cuttings. With plants that are not so easily propagated, a similar arrangement of the pots may be employed, and the space between the two filled with moss, tan, or even sand, and the center one also filled with sand, placing the cuttings in this, instead of around it, as in the preceding ar- rangement, employing two bell glasses, as shown in figure 63—a, the larger bell glass ; S, the inner, or smaller one; c, cutting; d, sand in the inner pot; e e, filled space between the pots ; /, the outer, or larger pot. With this device, and proper attention for securing a temperature of seventy to eighty degrees Fahrenheit, cuttings of many kinds of plants usually considered quite difficult to propa- gate, may be forced to produce roots in a few days or weeks. Many other devices are employed in propagating plants from green cuttings, but the principles governing the operation are the same in all, and while the propagator's ingenuity or fanc
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