CUTTINGS IN SAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 1383, 1 June 1878, Page 17

CUTTINGS IN SAND.

There is a way of striking cuttings, which some of our young readers may like better than that described in our last : — You want a deep saucer, or soup plate, that will hold an inch depth of sand ; you then make cuttings with one or more buds, from an inch to two inches long, and stick them in the damp aand ; if they are bo close, as in the figure, aa to touch each other, all the better. You then sprinkle on water from a watering pot until the sand is an wet as mud, and set the whole in a window, where it will have a plenty of sun. Cuttings of plants with soft stems, like verbenas, heliotropes, and fuchsias, should be put in when very young and tender. Plants root very quickly in this way, if you do not forget to keep sand wet all the

time. If it once dries up, you will have to begin over again. At the end of a week you can take out a cutting of each kind to see how it is doing ; when they show a thread of a root, they must be set out in good soil. Some will take root in a week or ten days, and others will take two or three weeks. But don't forget to keep the sand very wet all the time.