. 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. offshoots frcjm the stem collar putting forth rootlets. LAYER STOCKS. Stocks, particularly of cherry and plum, and the dwarf ap- rig. ss. pies, are extensively raised by layers. For this pur- pose the tree is cut oif close to the ground, so as to induce sprouting from the collar. In a few years it loses entirely the char- acter of a stemmed tree, and becomes
. 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. offshoots frcjm the stem collar putting forth rootlets. LAYER STOCKS. Stocks, particularly of cherry and plum, and the dwarf ap- rig. ss. pies, are extensively raised by layers. For this pur- pose the tree is cut oif close to the ground, so as to induce sprouting from the collar. In a few years it loses entirely the char- acter of a stemmed tree, and becomes a more bunch of sprouts, which, as they are renewed from year to year, are trimmed out and layered (Fig. 88). They are of certain well-known varieties, as the Mazzard cherry, the Mussel or Horse plum, and the Paradise apple, &c., and make tolerable stocks, but are in measure de- fective in root power, being inclined to one-sidedness (see Fig. 88), and often also somewhat disposed to produce root Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Watson, Alexander. New York, Harper & Brothers
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