. Soils and plant life as related to agriculture . Agriculture; Soils; Plants. THE PROPAGATION OF PLANTS 135 The stems of a few plants, such as the black-cap rasp- berry, tend to curve toward the ground. Roots will form at the tip if it is in close contact with the soil or. Fig. 48. — Propagating a plant by tip layers. covered by it. The new plant thus formed is called a tip layer. If the ground is kept free from weeds and the soil loose and mellow, the formation of both runners and tip layers is favored. Plants hke the grape, the snowball and the rambler rose, whose stems do not naturally cur
. Soils and plant life as related to agriculture . Agriculture; Soils; Plants. THE PROPAGATION OF PLANTS 135 The stems of a few plants, such as the black-cap rasp- berry, tend to curve toward the ground. Roots will form at the tip if it is in close contact with the soil or. Fig. 48. — Propagating a plant by tip layers. covered by it. The new plant thus formed is called a tip layer. If the ground is kept free from weeds and the soil loose and mellow, the formation of both runners and tip layers is favored. Plants hke the grape, the snowball and the rambler rose, whose stems do not naturally curve toward the ground, may be layered. This is done by bringing a stem carefully to the ground and holding it in place by covering it with earth. Roots then grow out from the buried stem, and the new plant which forms at this point is called a layer. The roots of many plants send up sprouts which are called suckers. Such plants do not develop good 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 Cunningham, Jules Cool, 1879-; Lancelot, William Henry, 1874-. New York : Macmillan
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