STRIKING CUTTINGS IN WATER.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 40, 15 April 1875, Page 3

STRIKING CUTTINGS IN WATER.

r We- are reminded by ah article in an English horticultural journal of an oldfashioned plan of -striking cuttings — y^^.^ji«? er ; t! n S P aem . in.bottles'bf soft water. ( The.author of the paper, speaks of rose cuttifrgsVdnly, buV.lpdrtions • of many: other pjarits may be thus induced to throw, out: root's. ' Myrtles and oleander^ were' commonly thus raised by amateurs' many yearsagb ; juveniles were also taught to suspend acorns ■ P v # . er the- sujpfae.e, -of water «• in" !a bottle, with a ,. , yie^ e to their > germination. These experimenfs..were, !"no doubt very • interesting : tp those. who were thereby gaining an introduction to practical horticulture; rbut the practice of striking^in_rwatgr bas also a ; . practical side, especially in this-quarter of the globe, .and "TjßtCi 'certain 'seasons of the- year. Ripened rose cuttings taken off duringtbe < Bummer; and placed in bottles of WftVater, in a frame, or on a green-bousershelf^-prjeyen .in: ;a cool sittingroom window, will strike in about five or six -weeks! In thisway they may be got ready to plant out'i'n' the border on ' the occurrence— of " the*"^fS(r^ aatuma rains, or they-may be potted off as soda as the rootlets appear, and when establisbe^they may, be planted out., Orange and lemon "cutting!! may 1 also be" thus struck,, and.^q^ indeed may any .of the myrtle 'tribe 1 .' J Another wa^ of striking cuttings™is r to- insert- them dn^pots : . filled with moist sphagnum "moss." Fuchsias -succeed" very well in? this .manner ;,cdttings of the old" wood may be used, or of young wood slipped off with : a slight h ; eel. , Calceolarias^ petunias, '. heliotropes, and cinerarias also l> strike with ..great freedpni in damp, moss,- especially when enclosed in a hand : light or frame "and shaded^ from- the sun;'- Nurserymen who have to raise large, numbers 'of each 'variety of fuchsia and ! rbse*klib'w how to turn every bud to good account, but.amateurs. require ..only-duplicates of certain^ favorite Jdnds, r and those they can* raise from cuttings/ excepting certain^ classes of rbse/as'for example the Galiicas, which- may be propagated by Ibutidtfig. -1 Ift is inexpedient *tb £llpw any cut|ings .to remain in Jbe^ cutting pot (cr v vstatef) after 'they have struck root ;; r thef 'should be- early- t'rmisferred !to small^potsi of sandy isoil, rl over.; a^'gbbd ;depth-of bye \v^y; : of* drainage*.