Growing African Violets From Cuttings or Starts

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Learn about growing African violets from cuttings or starts.

Growing African violets from cuttings or starts is easy using these helpful growing tips.

Starter African Violet Plants

Did you know that a plant can be patented? Well it can, and the very best African violets sold by firms such as George J. Ball, Inc. (P.O. Box 335, West Chicago, Illinois 60185, telephone 312-231-3500), are all patented. This means that before one of these companies will sell you any of its patented e starts, you will be required to sign an agreement which states that you will not propagate any new plants from the starters in sends you.

It’s all right — in other words — for you to buy these patented starts, raise them up, and then sell them . . . but it’s definitely not all right for you to buy the patented starts, raise them, start more plants from leaf cuttings taken from the original starts, and then sell the propagated plants.

If this restriction cramps your style too much, you’ll be better off dealing with commercial suppliers of unpatented African violets. There are several — including Fisher Greenhouses, Linwood, N.J. 08371 and Tinarl Greenhouses, 2325 Valley Rd., Box 190, Huntington Valley, PA 19006 — and you should have no trouble finding a source of unpatented starts that you enjoy dealing with.

  • Published on Jan 1, 1978
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