. American pomology : apples . Apples. PROPAGATION. 61 per end of the shoot if this has been placed in contact with the earth. Cuttings will sometimes be set np-side down, when we find the callus upon the smaller end, and roots will be emitted from that portion whence we should have expected to see the branches issue. Upon this fact,' and to multiply the chances of living, has been based the French method, as it is called, or that of inserting both ends of the cuttings. The common mode, (fig. 1), is to. Fig. 1.—^FBEHCH AKD COUMON MODES OF SETTING CUTTINGS. set the cuttings in a slanting direct
. American pomology : apples . Apples. PROPAGATION. 61 per end of the shoot if this has been placed in contact with the earth. Cuttings will sometimes be set np-side down, when we find the callus upon the smaller end, and roots will be emitted from that portion whence we should have expected to see the branches issue. Upon this fact,' and to multiply the chances of living, has been based the French method, as it is called, or that of inserting both ends of the cuttings. The common mode, (fig. 1), is to. Fig. 1.—^FBEHCH AKD COUMON MODES OF SETTING CUTTINGS. set the cuttings in a slanting direction in the ground, so placed that the upper eye or bud only shall reach the sur- face. Foi'merly there was a preference for long cuttings, and these were often made eighteen inches or more in length. The practice with most of our cultivators has been modified in this particular, and they have reduced the length of the sUps to six and eight inches, so as to have in grape wood about three or four eyes. Some have gone still further, and use but two, even for out-door planting of the grape, and some have been very success- ful when using but a single joint. The Germans have ad- vocated longer cuttings, upon the theory that there was a retroaction in the pith of the internodes and in all the buds of the cutting, upon the lower point, enabling it to push roots more strongly from a long than from a short. 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 Warder, J. A. (John Aston), 1812-1883. New York : Orange Judd and Company
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