TRY A BATCH OF LOBELIA CUTTINGS
Some of the finest batches of lobelia are. raised from cuttings inserted now. Of course, you need the old plants, too, in case the cuttings should have a bad time. If they do well, they produce successional batches of cuttings in spring, and finally can be split up and boxed for planting out. If you have stock plants in pots, you will find on them an abundance of cuttings about an ■ inch long. If you haven’t, you will find Quite a number of such shoots On plants that are flowering in the beds. ' . To make the cuttings ready for insertion, remove the bottom leaf and cut the stem just beneath the lowest joint. Then plant Jin. apart in welldrained boxes filled to within Jin. of the rim with a riddled compost of 2 parts loam, 1 part leaf-mould and 1 part leaf-mould and 1 part sand. After watering well, stand in a cold frame. At the end of a fortnight the cuttings will be rooted.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 105, 28 January 1938, Page 18
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171TRY A BATCH OF LOBELIA CUTTINGS Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 105, 28 January 1938, Page 18
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