Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . nd those of so little import-ance that it is hardly worth while to allude to them, cut-tmgs of all kinds root freely from slips taken from theyoung wood—^that is, the succulent or unripened growththat a plant has made. The proper condition of the slipat the time that it is inserted in the sand of the cutting-bench is of great importance,—a condition which it isastonishing to believe is so little understood among gar-deners. Somehow the idea has become current that every
Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . nd those of so little import-ance that it is hardly worth while to allude to them, cut-tmgs of all kinds root freely from slips taken from theyoung wood—^that is, the succulent or unripened growththat a plant has made. The proper condition of the slipat the time that it is inserted in the sand of the cutting-bench is of great importance,—a condition which it isastonishing to believe is so little understood among gar-deners. Somehow the idea has become current that everycarting must be made by cutting just below a joint orjust at one. The practice of this system leads undoubt-edly to many cases of failure; not that the mere cutting ator below a joint either assists or hinders the forma* 92 PRACTICAL tion of roots, but from the fict tliat when a slip iscut at a joint the shoot lias often become too hard atthat point, wliile half an inch higher up, or above thejoint, the proper condition would be found. The safestrule for the novice to adopt in propagating all kirds of. Fig. 25.—PROPER AND IMPROPER CONDITIONS OF CUTTING. soft-wooded plants is to bend the cutting on the shoot;if it breaks or snaps, as in the upper part of figure 25, itis in the right condition, but if it can be bent withoutsnapping, as shown in the lower part of the same figure,it is then too hard. We know it will root even in thishard condition, but it will root more slowly, and the rootsemitted will be hard and slender, and, ns a consequence,will not be likely to produce a plant of the same vigor as PROPAGATIOX OF PLAXTS BY CUTTINGS. 93 that made from one in the proper state. In propagatmgwoody })lants, such as Roses, Azaleas, Daphnes, etc., thistest of breaking or snapping does not apply, allthese will root, if taken in the same way; yet we find itenfeebles their growth more than if the cutting is allowedto get harder. What this degree of hardne
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