Elements of agriculture, southern and Elements of agriculture, southern and western elementsofagricu00welb Year: 1908 m ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE will live and grow. Figs are fairly easily multiplied in this way by planting cuttings in winter or early spring. The limbs of other M Fig. 24. }) 1 an t s m ay be brought down to the ground and covered, and when they take root, they may be set out as any other plant. This is called layering. Grapes are often propagated in this way. In the tropics most plants grow from cuttings set in the early part of the wet season. There I -%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%«^ i^
Elements of agriculture, southern and Elements of agriculture, southern and western elementsofagricu00welb Year: 1908 m ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE will live and grow. Figs are fairly easily multiplied in this way by planting cuttings in winter or early spring. The limbs of other M Fig. 24. }) 1 an t s m ay be brought down to the ground and covered, and when they take root, they may be set out as any other plant. This is called layering. Grapes are often propagated in this way. In the tropics most plants grow from cuttings set in the early part of the wet season. There I -%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%«^ i^ V^\ ^ ^^^^ ^^^^y^ often see a rt^^k ' V ^^^^v^s- ^^»^1 <^f mw^ tied to a limb which has been cut half in two, or liad the bark cut. This is done to en- courage rooting at Tliis method is about the same as ordinary Old Pecan Tree growing Paper- shell Buds that point, layering. Runners. — Many plants are multiplied by root stocks or runners. The blackberries and raspberries put up numerous plants from the roots. They are propagated
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