. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. purpose. Grapes^ can easily be 'propagated by/this method. A cane is merely bent
. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. purpose. Grapes^ can easily be 'propagated by/this method. A cane is merely bent down and a node or two covered with soil. They root readily and the new plant can soon be separated from the old one. Another type of layering is that by which a bush is mounded so that each shoot roots, making from five to twenty-five young plants iostead of one. After they are well rooted the plant can be divided and each part will be a separate plant. Gooseberries and many ornamental shrubs can be mound-layered. Strawberries are propagated by runners; each Uttle runner makes roots and forms a new plant. If one continues to keep the rows between the Strawberries clear except for the plants wanted another year, the crop' can be nicely renewed. The old plants are pulled and the new ones transplanted into place in anew row. Raspberries are propagated by bending down their tips and covering with soil. The tips root and the little new plants resiJting may he transplanted. A sort of layering goes on naturally with many plants. Tomato stems root nicely when they touch the soil. Squash may be encouraged to root at several places by covering the eyes or where the leaf arises from the stem Mound layering of Gooseberries, serve the roots forming. Method of layering a woody or half-woody plant, as for instance, a Rhododendron or a Carnation, a, Slit or tongue cut half way through the stem; b,Ipebble to keep sUt open; o, peg for holding down the layer; d, a stake to keep the shoot firm.
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