. The school garden book. School gardens. 36 THE SCHOOL GARDEN BOOK It is easy to see that the requirements of a part of the plant thus cut off from any connection with the roots are different from those of the normal growing plant. The lat- ter thrives in direct sunshine and in the open air, the water which passes freely from the leaves being replaced through the roots; but in the cutting no such replacing of water can take place unless the cut end is in water or some material saturated with water. The cut- ting is a plant without a root, and its first business is to develop a root system. Th
. The school garden book. School gardens. 36 THE SCHOOL GARDEN BOOK It is easy to see that the requirements of a part of the plant thus cut off from any connection with the roots are different from those of the normal growing plant. The lat- ter thrives in direct sunshine and in the open air, the water which passes freely from the leaves being replaced through the roots; but in the cutting no such replacing of water can take place unless the cut end is in water or some material saturated with water. The cut- ting is a plant without a root, and its first business is to develop a root system. The cuttings of many plants will do this quickly and surely if we give them the right conditions. The simplest way of inducing a cutting to send out roots is to Rooted Cutting of Geranium, Pl^Ce it in watCr. ^ If yOU will pUt the end of a willow twig in a bottle of water for a few weeks you will see the roots come out in great numbers. The same process will take place, but perhaps more slowly, if you immerse a slip of a Rose Geranium or an end of a gloxinia leaf in water; and very good plants of these flowers may be started in this way. A method that is not quite so simple, but is in general more satisfactory, is to start the cutting in moist sand or sandy soil. For this purpose a special little garden is desirable. A window-garden box or a shallow box of almost any sort may be filled with two or three inches of clean sand and used as a propagating box. This will probably be the most satisfac- tory method. When the cuttings are first planted, have a sheet of paper laid over the box to exclude direct sunshine,. 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 Weed, Clarence Moores, 1864-1947; Emerson, Philip, 1865-. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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