. The fruits and fruit trees of America;. Fruit-culture; Fruit. CtTTTIN&S. 27 plants, to retain a considerable portion of the stem with the bud, to supply it with food until it has formed roots to draw nouri«h- ment from the soil. All fruit trees may be propagated by cuttings with proper care and attention, but only a few grow with sufficient facility in this way to render their propagation by cuttings a common mode. These are the Gooseberry, the Currant, the Vine, the Quince, the Fig, and the Mulberry. Cuttings of the Currant, Gooseberry, and the hardy sorts oi Vine, will root readily, in
. The fruits and fruit trees of America;. Fruit-culture; Fruit. CtTTTIN&S. 27 plants, to retain a considerable portion of the stem with the bud, to supply it with food until it has formed roots to draw nouri«h- ment from the soil. All fruit trees may be propagated by cuttings with proper care and attention, but only a few grow with sufficient facility in this way to render their propagation by cuttings a common mode. These are the Gooseberry, the Currant, the Vine, the Quince, the Fig, and the Mulberry. Cuttings of the Currant, Gooseberry, and the hardy sorts oi Vine, will root readily, in a soil not too dry, in the open garden. Currants and Gooseberries are generally taken off in the fall ot winter, prepared for planting, and two thirds of their lower ends buried in the ground till the commencement of spring, when they are planted out, either where they are to remain, or in nur- sery rows. If planted in autumn, they are liable to be thrown out by winter frosts. They will succeed nearly as well if taken off in the spring, but, owing to the period at which they commence growing, this must be attended to very early, if deferred till that season. In order to raise plants of the Gooseberry and Currant, with straight, clean stems, which shall not throw up suckers, it is only necessary, before plant- ing the cutting, to cut out every eye or bud to be placed below the surface of the ground. Fig. 14. The cutting should be about a foot long, eight inches of which may be inserted in the ground. To insure greater success in raising the finer sorts of goose- berry, or other shrubs, it is customary to plant the cuttings on the shaded side of a wall or fence, in deep rich loam, rather damp than dry. Cuttings of the vine are generally prepared when trimming the ^^^'^^' \ old plants in autumn, or winter ; they may then be finL prqtared buried with their lower ends in the ground, or kept and planted, in earth in the cellar till spring. Scarce sorts of foreign grapes, which it i
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