Gardening for ladies, and, Companion to the flower-garden . .a Alata. tom heat. They may be consideredas the easiest of all cuttings tostrike, the principal art consistingini cutting the shoot across, through,or immediately under the joint, wiiha clean cut, preserving a few of theleaves on, and making the lowerend of the cutting quite firm in thesandy soil in which it is the summer time, such cuttingsmay be planted in the free soil ; andat other seasons, in order to admitof protection, in pots. In which-ever mode they are planted, theymust be kept in the shade, and in auniform state
Gardening for ladies, and, Companion to the flower-garden . .a Alata. tom heat. They may be consideredas the easiest of all cuttings tostrike, the principal art consistingini cutting the shoot across, through,or immediately under the joint, wiiha clean cut, preserving a few of theleaves on, and making the lowerend of the cutting quite firm in thesandy soil in which it is the summer time, such cuttingsmay be planted in the free soil ; andat other seasons, in order to admitof protection, in pots. In which-ever mode they are planted, theymust be kept in the shade, and in auniform state in regard to moisture,till they have begun to grow. Theirgrowing is an indication of theirhaving taken root, when theyshould be taken up, and each plant-ed in a separate pot. Hard-wooded greenhouse plants,such as Camellias, Myrtles, ever-green Acacias, and most Cape andAustralian shrubs, with compara-tively broad leaves, are a degreeor two more difficult to strike thanGeraniums and Fuchsias. The. Fig. 10.—Cutting of a Camellia. points of the shoots, after the springgrowth has been completed, andbefore the young wood is thorough-ly ripened, should be used ; and thesoil should contain a large propor-tion of sand, and be thoroughlydrained. If cuttings of this kindare put in during autumn, they re-quire to be kept through the winterunder glass, and they will not pro-duce roots till spring; but if theplants have made their growth, asj most Australian shrubs do, in Feb-I ruary or March, and the cuttingsj are taken off and planted in theseI months, they will root that same! season, and be fit to transplant intoi small pots in the course of the sum-I mer. To accomplish this object, itis common with cultivators to forceI forward the plants from which cut-tings are to be taken, by removingj them from the greenhouse to theI hothouse in January; and after; they have made their shoots, toharden these before making the cut-I tings, by removing the plants backi again to the greenhouse. Mos
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