. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 164 THE AGKICULTUKAL NEWS. May 27, FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES. ADDITIONAL METHODS OF VEGETATIVE PLANT PROPAGATION. Tlte Seedling-inarch and Nurse-plant Metliuds of Propa- gation is the title of a Bulletin (No. 202) that has just been issued by thu Bureau of Plant Industry of the Ignited States Department of Agriculture. It describes methods that are stated to be , and of such simplicity that they can be employed by persons who do not already a knowl- edge of [ilant propagation. The claim is
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 164 THE AGKICULTUKAL NEWS. May 27, FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES. ADDITIONAL METHODS OF VEGETATIVE PLANT PROPAGATION. Tlte Seedling-inarch and Nurse-plant Metliuds of Propa- gation is the title of a Bulletin (No. 202) that has just been issued by thu Bureau of Plant Industry of the Ignited States Department of Agriculture. It describes methods that are stated to be , and of such simplicity that they can be employed by persons who do not already a knowl- edge of [ilant propagation. The claim is made that their adoption will bring about the saving of much time in deter- mining the value of varieties of plants about which little is known. They are also said to be useful in crossing experi- ments; as plants propagated by their aid produce flowers much sooner than if they were growing on their own roots alone. It appears, however, that the most remarkable feature of the methods described is the certainty with which satisfactory unions of stocks and scions may be obtained, even in the case of plants which have not so far shown themselves to be capable of being propagated by grafting or budding. Reference is made to the delay of the cultivation of the man^o on a large scale, that has arisen from the want of inexpensive and neat methods of propagation, and there is also mention of the .somewhat similar experience with cacao. In the latter connexion, the Bulletin adverts to Pamphlet Xo. 61 of the Department Series, entitled The Grafting of Cacao, by J. Jones, Curator of the Botanic Station, Dominica, in which a method is described by which cacao i)lants may be propagated by inai clung, at the comparatively low price of Zd. each, and draws attention to the fact that, where old mango trees are in existence, there is no reason why this plant should noc be propagated almost as cheaply. The bulletin goes on to dei5cribe new methods for the vegetative propagation of about half a do
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