. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. "iUO AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. slides off the cut into a position almost perpendicular. (See Fig. 83 c.) If the sprout to be layered prove stubborn, a slight cut on the upper side, near the butt and toward the parent tree, will weaken its resistance, and enable you to bend and pin it to its proper p)lace, and will also probably promote the rooting of the la
. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. "iUO AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. slides off the cut into a position almost perpendicular. (See Fig. 83 c.) If the sprout to be layered prove stubborn, a slight cut on the upper side, near the butt and toward the parent tree, will weaken its resistance, and enable you to bend and pin it to its proper p)lace, and will also probably promote the rooting of the layer, unless it be made more than half thi'ough the sprout, which should be avoided. (See Fig. S3 d.) All tongucd layers rec|uu-e much care in removing them from the parent plant, to avoid splitting them up from the tongue. Generally, all the roots will be found to have grown from the tongue-bud, and a little rashness may leave you a rootless plant. (See Fig. 88, p. 203.) Besides tongueing, other modes of attaining the same end are sometimes used, as notching the sprout about half through immediately below a bud. Sometimes tongueing is combined with this, and in inexperienced hands the notching will render it easier to form the tongue properly. Banding tightly with wire, piercing with an awl or knife, girdling a narrow space, or merely twisting the shoot just beyond the bud from which the roots are expected to push, are all resorted to, while some plants, as the grape-vine, root freely if the branches are simply fastened down and covered lightly with earth. Fig. 84. HILL LAYERING. This is a process often re- sorted to for propagating free- rooting woody plants, as the quince, certain varieties of the apple, and some forest trees. The young shoots are prepared by trimming, as di- rected above for common lay- ering, but may be tongued or not, according to the character of the tree, a flattened or dished hill of earth, six or eight inches high, being made about them, as shown in th
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