. The nursery-book : a complete guide to the multiplication of plants . Plant propagation. ROOT-GRAFTED AND BUDDED TREES. 151 root is essentially a cutting. Every gardener knows that roots seldom start symmetrically from all sides of the end of a culling. Fig. 144 (from a photograph) shows young roots springing off from the end of a cutting. All three of them start from nearly a conmion point. It is a one- sided or unsymmetrical system. iMg. 145 shows two root-grafts, drawn from life, as they had grown at the expira- tion of two months after they were planted in the nursery. They show the same
. The nursery-book : a complete guide to the multiplication of plants . Plant propagation. ROOT-GRAFTED AND BUDDED TREES. 151 root is essentially a cutting. Every gardener knows that roots seldom start symmetrically from all sides of the end of a culling. Fig. 144 (from a photograph) shows young roots springing off from the end of a cutting. All three of them start from nearly a conmion point. It is a one- sided or unsymmetrical system. iMg. 145 shows two root-grafts, drawn from life, as they had grown at the expira- tion of two months after they were planted in the nursery. They show the same pecu- liarities of root development as the cutting i-loes in I'ig, 144. The reader now desires to know why the same one-sided method of root growth tloes not take place at the end of the root in the budded tree, for these stocks are dressed or trimmed—that is, tlie tips of the roots are cut off—before they are set in the nursery row. The whole question turns upon how much the roots of the stocks are cut back. If only the very tip is cut off, and there is a strong ro')t development aljove it, this tip will simply heal over and develop no side roots, or else what side roots do develop will be very weak. This is practically what takes place in the A,5. ionnir >ootg,a/!s. common treatment of budding stock. If, however, the root were very severely cut back, the same development would no doubt start from the tip of the budded stock as from that of the root-grafted stock. Fig. 146, from life, sho«'S how this may occur. The stock on the left is budded, that on the right grafted. Both were severely headed-in (cut off at T), and both have developed prongy roots. The budded stock was much longer than the other, however, and, therefore, its root system is 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 work
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