The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . eep thewound open ; withoutthis precaution the twoparts will soon join,and the operation upper part of theincision ought to benearly level with theearth in the pot; itsometimes happensthat the roots issue atone and at the sameIiff- -5. time from the slit andCuttmgs of arborescent Bignonias. the base of the or Grafts upon Roots.—I have often em-ployed the followingmethod of stnkingplants which are dif-ficnlt to multiply bycuttings. The pro-cess may be slit-graft-ing, as in fig. 26, orcrown-graftmg, as infig. 27. The l
The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . eep thewound open ; withoutthis precaution the twoparts will soon join,and the operation upper part of theincision ought to benearly level with theearth in the pot; itsometimes happensthat the roots issue atone and at the sameIiff- -5. time from the slit andCuttmgs of arborescent Bignonias. the base of the or Grafts upon Roots.—I have often em-ployed the followingmethod of stnkingplants which are dif-ficnlt to multiply bycuttings. The pro-cess may be slit-graft-ing, as in fig. 26, orcrown-graftmg, as infig. 27. The ligaturesmust be of irorsted ;care should be takennot to cover the upperpart of the roots ofthese grafts, or atleast very little. Insuch operations thecutting either adheresto the root as an or-dinary graft, and Tig- in the same way, or the root does nothing morethan nourish and iold thebranch fast with which it isin contact, nntU it forces it tosend roots into the soil; the [cutting is then on its own bot-tom, as we say. Tree PEeonies,.
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