. The Book of gardening; a handbook of horticulture. Gardening; Floriculture. 958 THE BOOK OF GARDENING. may the be so arranged that the plant may be had in flower, or egetable ready for use, by the time it is required. Methods of Cutting.—Terminal Cuttings of soft- and hard- wooded plants are the best; and, as long as these are available, no others should be used, for they have the great advantage of growing much quicker, having only roots to make. This remark applies to both the soft- and the hard-wooded species. Some plants {Coffea, for example) are nearly always propagated by terminal cutt
. The Book of gardening; a handbook of horticulture. Gardening; Floriculture. 958 THE BOOK OF GARDENING. may the be so arranged that the plant may be had in flower, or egetable ready for use, by the time it is required. Methods of Cutting.—Terminal Cuttings of soft- and hard- wooded plants are the best; and, as long as these are available, no others should be used, for they have the great advantage of growing much quicker, having only roots to make. This remark applies to both the soft- and the hard-wooded species. Some plants {Coffea, for example) are nearly always propagated by terminal cuttings, for if lateral branches have been selected, they ve^y seldom give rise to a head growth. This is also the case with several ConifercB {Araucaria excelsa, for example), which can only be successfully increased by this mode. Fig. 622 show^s a cutting of Eiionymiis japoniciis made from the terminal shoot of a branch and ready for insertion. It is sometimes necessary to remove the bottom leaves of a cutting, chiefly in the case of soft-. FiG. 622.—Hakd-wooded Cutting of Euonymus japonicus. them o m be be the wooded plants, as this enables be more easily inserted. This mode of cutting, which is, reality, a herbaceous cutting, could, without any difficulty, divided into several groups. First, for plants which can propagated with growing growth not fully developed, as is case with Allamandas, Medinellas, Ixoras, &c., cuttings of which, when placed in a close heat, root very quickly; secondly, for plants requiring for propagation a fully developed and herbaceous wood, which also need to be treated in a very close temperature, for the action of air them very easily (as examples, the Theobroma [Cocoa Tree], Coiiroiipita &c., may be mentioned); and, plants such as Nepenthes, which are more successfully propagated with growing than with ripened w^ood. Eye-Cuttings are generally used in the propa- gation of the vine. The method consists in removing a part containing one ey
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