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PROPAGATIO:~T BY iktEAN8 OF CUTTINGS 109
cuttings are commonl>r cut below a bud or to a
heel, but this is unnecessary in easily rooted
plants like geranium,
coleus, heliot.rope.
Fig. 116
shows an oleander --
cutting at a, a
carnation at b, and
a geranium at c.
A coleus cutting
is illustrated in One fol’m Of
chrysanthe-
Fig. 117. hIany mum cutting
growers prefer to ix g).
make a larger cutting of certain
firm-wooded plants, like
chrysanthemums, as
shown in Fig. 11X. A bed of dracenas is shown in
Fig. 92, a.nd one of the cuttings is drawn in Fig. 119.
Sometimes the growth is so
short or the stock so scarce
that the cutting cannot be made
long enough to hold itself in
the soil. In such case a toothpick
or splinter is tied to the
cutting to hold it erect, as in
the cactus cutting, Fig. 120, or
the geranium cutting, Fig. 131.
In the window-garden, soft cuttings
may be started in a deep Fro. 120.
plate half or two-thirds full of ~$us~~~-j
sand and then filled to the brim F; !~~linter
with water, and not shaded ; J ’
this method, practiced on a larger scale,
FIG. 121. Cutting held
by toothpick (x 5). is sometimes useful in the hot summer