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Cuttage 39-62 Devices for Regulating Heat and Moisture 39 Soils and General Methods 46 Particular Methods--Kinds of Cuttings 51 1. Tuber Cuttings 52 2. Root Cuttings 53 3. Stem Cuttings 54 4. Leaf Cuttings 60
The apricot thrives upon a variety of stocks. Apricot stocks are used in apricot-growing regions, especially for deep and rich well-drained soils. The pits grow readily if given...
9. CHAPTER V.=Grafting.=--The operation of inserting a bud or a cion in a stock. It is commonly restricted to the operation of inserting cions of two or more buds, in distinction from buddin...
8. CHAPTER IV.=Devices for Regulating Moisture and Heat.=--In order to secure a uniform and moist atmosphere, various propagating-frames are devised. Whatever its construction, the frame shou...
13. CHAPTER VII.GENERAL REQUIREMENTS.--In order to understand the methods of pollination, the reader must be able to recognize the parts of the flower. The fuchsia, Fig. 90, shows the parts dis...
10. CHAPTER VI.Propagated by seeds, which are usually kept dry over winter and sown in spring in frames or in protected borders. Cones should be fully matured before being gathered. If they ho...
5. CHAPTER I.There are three external requisites to the germination of seeds--moisture, free oxygen, and a definite temperature. These requisites are demanded in different degrees and propor...
6. CHAPTER II.Bulbs of all kinds are specialized buds. They are made up of a short and rudimentary axis closely encased in transformed and thickened leaves or bulb-scales. These thickened par...
7. CHAPTER III.=Layer.=--A shoot or root, attached to the parent plant, partially or wholly covered with earth with the intention that it shall take root and then be severed from the parent.
11. Chapter V) and heeled-in; in the spring they are set innursery rows, from a foot to eighteen inches apart in the row. The nurseryman reckons the age of his tree from the time the seedling is transplanted, rather than from the time t...
4. CHAPTER VII.NURSERY.--_An establishment for the rearing of plants. In America the word is commonly used in connection with the propagation of woody plants only, as fruit-trees and ornamenta...
2. CHAPTER IV.Cuttage 39-62 Devices for Regulating Heat and Moisture 39 Soils and General Methods 46 Particular Methods--Kinds of Cuttings 51 1. Tuber Cuttings 52 2. Root Cuttings 53 3. Stem...
1. CHAPTER I.3. CHAPTER V.