Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . and for this reasonsome of the best European propagators fail, when attempt- ing the operation here inJuly, with the thermom-eter in the shade at90°, while in Londonsuccess may attend theseefforts at the same date;but then the thermome-ter there only marks70°. This twenty de-grees just makes thedifference. I liave dweltthus long on the subjectof temperature, to fix inthe mind of the readerwhat I believe to be ofgreat importance, and toprepare liim to under-stand, if fai
Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . and for this reasonsome of the best European propagators fail, when attempt- ing the operation here inJuly, with the thermom-eter in the shade at90°, while in Londonsuccess may attend theseefforts at the same date;but then the thermome-ter there only marks70°. This twenty de-grees just makes thedifference. I liave dweltthus long on the subjectof temperature, to fix inthe mind of the readerwhat I believe to be ofgreat importance, and toprepare liim to under-stand, if failure occurs,where to place the cause,for without much doubtevery case of faihire istraceable either to theunsuitable condition ofthe cutting, irregular-ity of moisture, or most proper condition of temperature, to root cut-tings of the great majority of green-house and beddingplants, is 65 degrees of bottom heat, indicated by a ther-mometer plunged in the sand of the bench, and an atmos-pheric temperature of 15 degrees less. A range of 10 de-grees may be allowed, that is, 5° lower, or 5° higher, but. Fig. 39.—SPLIT CUTTING. PROPAGATION OF PLANTS BY CUTTINGS. 97 the nearer the heat of the sand can be kept to 65°, andthat of the rest of the house to 50°, the more perfect thesuccess will be. From the time the cuttings are inserted in the sand un-til they are rooted, they should never be allowed to getdry; in fact, our practice is to keep the sand soaked with water, the cutting benchbeing watered copiouslyevery morning, and often,when the atmosphere isdry, again in the thus saturated, thereis less chance of the cuttinggetting wilted, either byheat from the suns rays,or from fire heat; for be itremembered that if a cut-ting once gets wilted, itsjuices are expended, andit becomes in the conditionof a hard cutting, in thecondition in which, whenbent, it will not snap norbreak,which we have shownto be the proper state atFig. 80.—ROOT CUTTING. fig
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