TO KEEP CUTTINGS FRESH IN TRAVELLING.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 322, 5 December 1888, Page 5

TO KEEP CUTTINGS FRESH IN TRAVELLING.

A peksox who takes an interest in fruitgrowing and gardening, is likely, when he gets an opportunity, to visit the orchards and gardens of others when away from home, and to observe any trees and plants of value belonging to varieties he does not possess himself. The owner will often give him slips and cutticgs of these if the season be suitable, which too often are past growing when the grateful recipient reaches his own home. Yet it is easy so to manage as to carry cuttings in perfect growing condition for days after they are cut from the parent stem. All that is wanted is the constant application of moisture. A piece of linen rag', or, better still, flannel wrnn:r out of water and wrapped round the cuttings we I\ave found to keep them fresh and plump, especially if the wet flannel in which the cuttings are wrapped is tolled up in ar> outer covering of something thiough which the moisture will not readily evaporate. But if you have a little damp moss and a bit of oiled silk, you are provided with all that is necessary to carry cuttings many miles withoutinjury to then- vitality. They should be rolled up in their materials as shown in the accompanying illustration

Avhich we lately came across in an exchange. The upper parts of the culling.- should he left uncovered, and carefully done up in this way, cuttings of c.'on soft weeded plants and shrubs will keep perfectly freth a long time.