. Biennial report of the Oregon State Board of Horticulture ... Horticulture -- Oregon; Fruit-culture -- Oregon; Gardening -- Oregon. APPENDIX. 431. Suckers or roal siirmtlsâThe young- shoots that spring- up around black- berry, red raspberry,plums, pears, and many of our cul- tivated plants are g^ood il- lustrations of this mode of reproduction. In forestry this natural mode of repro- duction is a favorite re- source for certain lines of work, as the production of ^^ tanbark, posts, and stove- wood, and is given the spe- cial name of the Coppice ^^^- ^ â System of forestry. Nur- sery practice
. Biennial report of the Oregon State Board of Horticulture ... Horticulture -- Oregon; Fruit-culture -- Oregon; Gardening -- Oregon. APPENDIX. 431. Suckers or roal siirmtlsâThe young- shoots that spring- up around black- berry, red raspberry,plums, pears, and many of our cul- tivated plants are g^ood il- lustrations of this mode of reproduction. In forestry this natural mode of repro- duction is a favorite re- source for certain lines of work, as the production of ^^ tanbark, posts, and stove- wood, and is given the spe- cial name of the Coppice ^^^- ^ â System of forestry. Nur- sery practices are greatly facilitated by this natural tendency in plants which reproduce their kind true to variety. This is the case with all the red rasp- berries, and blackberries. Some ])lums also reproduce true to name in this manner. In general, seedlings, and all plants that have been grown from cuttings will come true from root sprouts, if they reproduce in that way. Outside the bush fruits, however, this method of reproduction should be discouraged rather than encouraged. Nothing is more annoying to the orchardist and fruitgrower than the persistent sprouting of some plantsâthe hazel and the blackberry are striking examples of such nuisances : also some of the poj)- lars when used as lawn trees. AllTIFICIAI. REPUODUCTION. The primary object of the nurseryman's business is to multiply plants, and secondly, to perpetuate cultural varieties. The most of the art then consists in the perpetuation of cultural varieties, for as we have already seen, nature has amply provided for the simple multiplication of plants. The artificial methods which we now have to consider are the chief re- sources of the nurseryman in the perpetuation of all desirable varieties of fruits. If it were impossible to continue the existence of a variety of apples through seeds, root sprouts, or some one of the natural processes of repro- duction, that variety, no matter how desii-able it might be, would be lost
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