The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . That we did not over-estimate the interest tol)e taken in the question of propagating plantsBY THEIR LEAVES is evident from the letters thathave reached us on the subject. We select a few onlyfrom the correspondence before us, for the sake ofthe facts they adduce with reference to this curiousoperation. That success is attainable, even in the presentstate of our information, to a greater extent than isusually supposed, is quite certain. For example :—A more unpromising plant than the Fuchsia couldhardly be selected for experiment, and yet it
The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . That we did not over-estimate the interest tol)e taken in the question of propagating plantsBY THEIR LEAVES is evident from the letters thathave reached us on the subject. We select a few onlyfrom the correspondence before us, for the sake ofthe facts they adduce with reference to this curiousoperation. That success is attainable, even in the presentstate of our information, to a greater extent than isusually supposed, is quite certain. For example :—A more unpromising plant than the Fuchsia couldhardly be selected for experiment, and yet it provesto be one of those most wiUing to multiply itself byits leaves. iVe have the following fact from an in-telligent correspondent, Mr. Reid, of Noblethorpe:— Last spring I put in a few cuttings of Fuchsiasunder a bell-glass; on taking them up for potting,I ^found amongst the sand two leaves that had dropped from the cuttings, and got imbeddedamongst the sand about half their length, caused byoccasionally taking off the glass to water the cu
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