Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . proved upon the former way of doing of tonguing the shoot to be used for a cut-ting, as before, it was merely snapped short off, at apoint where the condition of the shoot or slip wouldmake it hang on to the plant, by the merest shred ofbark, as shown in figure 72. Slight as this strip ofbark appears to be, it is sufficient to sustain the cut-ting, without any material injury from wilting, untilit forms the callus, or granulated condition, whichusually preced
Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . proved upon the former way of doing of tonguing the shoot to be used for a cut-ting, as before, it was merely snapped short off, at apoint where the condition of the shoot or slip wouldmake it hang on to the plant, by the merest shred ofbark, as shown in figure 72. Slight as this strip ofbark appears to be, it is sufficient to sustain the cut-ting, without any material injury from wilting, untilit forms the callus, or granulated condition, whichusually precedes the formation of roots. The cut-ting, or slip, may be detached in from 8 to 12 days, after A USEFUL METHOD OP PROPAGATING PLAINTS. 277 it has been broken in the manner described; and thenpotted in 2 or 3 inch pots. If watered and shaded ratherless than required by ordinary cuttings, it will form rootsin 8 or 12 da3^s more, and not one in a hundred will fail,oven of plants of the Tricolor Geraniums, which we allknow are difficult to root under the ordinary modes ofpropagation, particularly in hot weather. We last fall. Fig. 73.—CUTTINGS PARTLY SEVERED. propagated in this way nearly 10,000 plants of the Tri-color class, with a loss of one per cent; had we adoptedthe ordinary method, even with the plants in good con-dition, our experience has been that a loss of at least 50per cent might have been expected. This plan is applicable to many other plants as well as 278 PRACTICAL FLOEICULTURE. Geraniums. The following may be propagated withgreat certainty by this method, using the young un-ripened shoots : Abutilon, Begonias, Carnations, Helio-tropes, Crotons, Cactus of all kinds, Lantanas, Olean-ders, Petunias (double), Pelargoniums, or Geraniumsof all kinds, Poinsettias, together with nearly all kindsof a half woody or succulent character.—Besides the ab-solute certainty of having the cuttings root by thismethod, it has another most important advantage : Allpropagators know t
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