slips, in Gardening, the branches or sprigs of trees or plants, cut or flipped off to set again; which is done in any moist fine earth.

The best season is from August to April; but care is to be taken, when it is done, the sap be not too much in the top, lest the cut die before that part in the earth have root enough to support it: nor yet must it be too dry or scanty; the sap in the branches assisting it to take root.

In providing the cuttings, such branches as have joints, knots, or burrs, are to be cut off two or three inches beneath them, and the leaves to be stripped off so far as they are set in the earth. Small top branches, of two or three years growth, are fittest for this operation.