The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . Having succeeded ?with the leaves, of which I havejust spoken, I tried, in 1839, tomultiply Theophrasta latifoliawith its leaves cut in two, ?^\ithwhich I made two cuttings;these portions took root anddeveloped buds, as is seen mfig. 21. This experiment evi-dently proves that some plantsmay be reproduced by cuttingsof the midrib of their primitive bud, as I haveremarked, rises from the callusabove the root ?which fii-st showsitself, and about l-16th of aninch from the base of the mid-rib. The dotted part, shownin the upper half of
The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . Having succeeded ?with the leaves, of which I havejust spoken, I tried, in 1839, tomultiply Theophrasta latifoliawith its leaves cut in two, ?^\ithwhich I made two cuttings;these portions took root anddeveloped buds, as is seen mfig. 21. This experiment evi-dently proves that some plantsmay be reproduced by cuttingsof the midrib of their primitive bud, as I haveremarked, rises from the callusabove the root ?which fii-st showsitself, and about l-16th of aninch from the base of the mid-rib. The dotted part, shownin the upper half of the annexedleaf, was removed in order toput the leaf into a little pot, butthis did not prevent the successof the cutting. Scale-cutlings. — These cut- p- OT TV, I .1 (?• tings are made with the scalesFig. 21. Tlieophrasta lati- „»,.,. , , , folia, struck from cuttings of LiUaceous plants ; suchof a leaf. scales are planted either up- right or flat, are covered ?nith about 1-16th of an inchof earth, and are placed in an atmosphere
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