Archive image from page 57 of The dahlia; its culture, uses. The dahlia; its culture, uses and history dahliaitsculture00john Year: 1847 48 When the shoots, or any of them, are two inches long, if you do not want a very large increase, you may break them carefully off by pushing them a little on one side, and then back again ; but in this operation the pressure must be given quite at the bottom, as well as a little way up ; by placing the broad part of the thumb against the side, and press- ing down on the crown, as well as against the shoot, it will be found to break out very easily, and str
Archive image from page 57 of The dahlia; its culture, uses. The dahlia; its culture, uses and history dahliaitsculture00john Year: 1847 48 When the shoots, or any of them, are two inches long, if you do not want a very large increase, you may break them carefully off by pushing them a little on one side, and then back again ; but in this operation the pressure must be given quite at the bottom, as well as a little way up ; by placing the broad part of the thumb against the side, and press- ing down on the crown, as well as against the shoot, it will be found to break out very easily, and strike as readilv, if not more readily, than if cut off. If this be done at the right age of the shoot, there is not the least difficulty about it, and other eyes will shoot round the place it was broken away from. These shoots should be potted, if you have room for them, in small sixty-sized pots, or thumb-pots, as they are called, which is the smallest regular pot that is made, one in a pot; but if, as is frequently the case with amateur growers, you are cramped for room, put five or six in a large-size sixty pot, round the
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