method works......BUT; I use cuttings of firm new growth.. apply 0.8% IBA (Root Hormone) stick in well drained soil & mist taking 30-80 days to root.............I use this method because I can get many more rooted cuttings this way not because its "easer"

I have also done vegetative cuttings much the same way yiorges does them. I have also done them by root cuttings, which gives me the highest % of take but it is much more difficult and you need to destroy one plant...but you can get alot more. I would assume you are a home owner trying to propagate this plant. If so, vegetative cuttings might be a little difficult due to the fact that you don't really have a mist system. You can try your method. Try scoring the bottom of the stem then you can put a little powder on the wound, then put a rock on top of the stem so the bottom of the stem is making good contact with soil. Then keep it watered. Another way I have done it is take a stem (not one that appears woody but not a soft green one either...like a stem that is light brown - last years growth) and lightly score the stem all around. Apply some rooting hormone powder. Then take a ball of soil...about the size of a baseball and moisten it. Next take the ball of soil and put it around the wound you just created and hold it in your hand. Then take tin foil and wrap the soil ball with tin foil and pinch it around the stem above and below the soil ball so it will stay there. Then you can poke holes in the foil. Keep the soil moist and by fall time you should have some roots. Next spring comes you can take the foil off and there should be roots all throughout that soil ball. Cut the stem off and plant the soil ball and you will have a new plant! This has worked for me just need to make sure that soil stays moist.