Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1875 — To Start Cuttings. [ARTICLE]

To Start Cuttings.

Cuttings of many plants can be readi«ly started in wafer; and in the early spring, if you have not a greenhouse or hot-bed, it is the safest plan. Fill small bottles or phials with warmish water, remove the lower leaves of the cut ings (to be sure to have the bud at the base), and put them in water; hang up the phial to the window-sash, lying a string about the mou h for this purpose. If cotton-wool is put around the mouth of the phial it will prevent the evaporation of the water and make the roots sprout more quickly by keep-

ing up a more even temperature. Olean ders ean be rooted in this manner; also heliotropes, verbenas, roses, fuchsias and all kinds of bedding-out plants. The process is so simple that a mere child can succeed with it. As soon as the roots are an inch long the cutting should be transplanted, taking care to Spread out the tiny rootlets as they grow in Some fill up the bottle with rich earth, let it dry off for two or three days and then break the glass and pot or plant out the cuttings without disturbing its roots in the least degree. This is the most certain way of obtaining plants from cuttings.—Daisy Eyebright.