. Garden guide; the amateur gardeners' handbook. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book . DahUa root, showing young shoots starting andwhere to cut apart (c) covered with glassor not should havea shading. A goodplace for the cuttingswould be under theGrape vines wherethere is always ampleshade. Water themthoroughly. Firmthem in sand solidly,give them shade, andwater carefully. Cut-tings of any sortshould not be placedright where they areto Jerusalem Artichoke tuber. Note the eyes; unliket
. Garden guide; the amateur gardeners' handbook. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book . DahUa root, showing young shoots starting andwhere to cut apart (c) covered with glassor not should havea shading. A goodplace for the cuttingswould be under theGrape vines wherethere is always ampleshade. Water themthoroughly. Firmthem in sand solidly,give them shade, andwater carefully. Cut-tings of any sortshould not be placedright where they areto Jerusalem Artichoke tuber. Note the eyes; unlikethose of the Dahlia they are on the tuber itself 270 GARDEN GUIDE Making Cuttings of Perennials This sort of cutting can be made of hundreds of perennials. Ifyou wish to increase your stock, merely take little slips in the Springwhen the plants are six or seven inches tall. Be sure to leave a fewbuds below where the cutting is taken; it will not injure the plants in theleast, but will cause them to become branchy. Choose wood that isa httle ripened. Perennials which are readily propagated by cuttings are: Arabis Dahlia Hollyhock Lotus Asclepias Eupatorium Iberis Perennial Sunflower Cerastium Helenium Larkspur Phlox Chrysanthemum Hesperis Lobelia Pink Clematis Heuchera Loosestrife Potentilla Leaf Cuttings Leaf cuttings are rarely made in the garden, but if some friend hasgiven the reader^a slip of a Rex Begonia he may attempt to root all but one leaf and oftentimes that leaf needs leaves removed can be cut up in s
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