. School and home gardening; a text book for young people, with plans, suggestions and helps for teachers, club leaders and organizers. Gardening; School gardens. CUTTAGE 159 roots are formed, new shoots or leaves will be sent up. The exercise may he varied by fastening a leaf with tooth-picks firmly against the wet sand. Roots will probably form at each place where the leaf is held down. A storage of plant-food, such as starch, is present in fleshy leaves. This supplies nourishment to the new growth. 3. Cuttings in Water.—^A number of kinds of green wood cut- tings may be started by placing s
. School and home gardening; a text book for young people, with plans, suggestions and helps for teachers, club leaders and organizers. Gardening; School gardens. CUTTAGE 159 roots are formed, new shoots or leaves will be sent up. The exercise may he varied by fastening a leaf with tooth-picks firmly against the wet sand. Roots will probably form at each place where the leaf is held down. A storage of plant-food, such as starch, is present in fleshy leaves. This supplies nourishment to the new growth. 3. Cuttings in Water.—^A number of kinds of green wood cut- tings may be started by placing slips in water, without the use of. Fig. 90.—Starting geraniums for cuttings for window boxes. (Rittenhouse School Gardens.) sand or soil. Try this with oleander, young willow shoots, "wan- dering jew" (tradescantia). Umbrella plant may be started in water by trimming half the leaf surface from one of the stems and inverting it in a bottle of water. In each ease, the water should be changed to avoid any rotting or fermentation which may tend to develop. After roots are well established by this method, they may be trans- ferred to rich soil in well drained pots or Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Davis, Kary Cadmus, 1867-. Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company
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