The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . old stem, which will increase at all subsequent cuttings, leaving a short stem of it, per-haps a few inches, between them and the surface of the ground. At the end of thesecond year, we have a plant like fig. 4; and at the end of the third year, like fig. this and subsequent ages, many of the stools will be getting one-sided, from thebreaking off of snags by carelessness or accident; and when the stools stand closetogether, many shoots will be weak and worthless. This is a veiy bad system of cut-ting, yet in England it is the g
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . old stem, which will increase at all subsequent cuttings, leaving a short stem of it, per-haps a few inches, between them and the surface of the ground. At the end of thesecond year, we have a plant like fig. 4; and at the end of the third year, like fig. this and subsequent ages, many of the stools will be getting one-sided, from thebreaking off of snags by carelessness or accident; and when the stools stand closetogether, many shoots will be weak and worthless. This is a veiy bad system of cut-ting, yet in England it is the general one. A much better system is practiced by a few. Fig. 10. good growers. When the cutting is planted, it has the appearance of fig. 6 — the topbud level with the surface of the ground. It will be found that the shoots given thefirst summer, as shown at fig. 7, will be much stronger than that shown at fig. 2. Thereason is obvious: as soon as the shoots fairly commence growing, roots are emitted atthe base of the pushing buds, which, being near the surface, greatly assist their growth,Yvhen these are cut back, it must be done close to the surface of the ground, as seenat fig. 8. The next summer the stools will give a luxuriant growth of rods, as at , showing a great contrast to stools of the same age, as at fig. 4. Persons unac-quainted with Willow-growing must not think this overdrawn, as I can answer for it; * It is much bettor not to head tlictn back until the end of the second year, as it materially strengthens theMany good growers occasionally let tlieir old plantations stand two ycirs, to give them greater vigor. tyy^^- :?
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