An introduction to agriculture . oft wood cuttings from someof the garden plants, and root, and pot these. This is a goodway to acquire plants for the following spring. Hard-Wood Cuttings.— Hard-wood cuttings, such ascurrant, gooseberry, grape, and all fiowering shrubs,are generally made late in the fall after the leaves havefallen from the plants. Pieces of the one year oldbranches, containing two or three buds, are carefullycut from the plant. These are tied into small bunchesand packed in green sawdust or moist sand in a coolcellar. They may be started in the house in Februaryor March, or l
An introduction to agriculture . oft wood cuttings from someof the garden plants, and root, and pot these. This is a goodway to acquire plants for the following spring. Hard-Wood Cuttings.— Hard-wood cuttings, such ascurrant, gooseberry, grape, and all fiowering shrubs,are generally made late in the fall after the leaves havefallen from the plants. Pieces of the one year oldbranches, containing two or three buds, are carefullycut from the plant. These are tied into small bunchesand packed in green sawdust or moist sand in a coolcellar. They may be started in the house in Februaryor March, or lie until the sj)ring, and then be plantedin a light rich soiL When they are phuited they shouldbe put deeply in the soil so that only one bud projectsabove the soil. They are generally put in the groundin a slanting position and the soil firmly pressed aboutthem. PROPAGATION BY CUTTINGS 185 Practice making some hard-wood cuttings and keep themover the winter. In the spring plant them. Potatoes and sua^ar cane are nearly always. propagated from cuttings. A potato is aswollen underground stem and when it is cutinto pieces to plant, we use a piece of the stemor a cutting. 182. some plantsbuds may be madeto root without be-ins: cut from the plant. A , slender layerixg branch or stem isbent down, then covered with soil. From the buds inthis part of the stem, roots will grow. When they arewell established the stem is cut off between the newroots and the old plant and we have a new plant. Try the experiment of layering such bushes as gooseberry^raspberry, blackberry, and currant, and also grape vines. 183. Grafting.— Grafting consists in setting intoa tree a little twig from another tree, so that it be^comes a new branch. The tree on which the graftis made is called the stock, and the twig set into it,is a scion. More commonly, however, grafts are madedifferently. In case of the apple, roots from one yearold apple seedlings are cut up into as many pieces aspossible, ea
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