. The propagation of plants ; giving the principles which govern the development and growth of plants, their botanical affinities and peculiar properties; also, descriptions of the process by which varieties and species are crossed or hybridized, and the many different methods by which cultivated plants may be propagated and multiplied . Plant propagation. SELECT LISTS OF PLANTS. 277 ceeded by small berry-like frnit. Species of this genus may be sought in botanical works under such generic names as Serberis, MaJumia, Prinoa and Mygkida. The European HoUy (/. aquxfoliwnC), and its many varietie
. The propagation of plants ; giving the principles which govern the development and growth of plants, their botanical affinities and peculiar properties; also, descriptions of the process by which varieties and species are crossed or hybridized, and the many different methods by which cultivated plants may be propagated and multiplied . Plant propagation. SELECT LISTS OF PLANTS. 277 ceeded by small berry-like frnit. Species of this genus may be sought in botanical works under such generic names as Serberis, MaJumia, Prinoa and Mygkida. The European HoUy (/. aquxfoliwnC), and its many varieties, is not hardy in our Northern States, but the American Holly (/. qpaca), thrives in sheltered positions, as far north as the southern counties of the State of Massachusetts. Several trees in my grounds have withstood the cold and produced a fine crop of berries during the past twenty years. The European and true American Holly are in- creased by seed, which should be gathered late in autumn, or dur- ing the winter, and placed in a vessel that wiU hold water and kept wet for a few days, then the pulp washed off clean. The seed should then be mixed with moist sand, and exposed to the cold in the. Fig. 98.—OION OF AMEEICAN HOLLT. open air, or sown in a bed and covered about an inch deep, and the whole sniiace of the seed-bed well mulched. The seed does not usually sprout until the second year, and if allowed to remain very diy they wUl seldom germinate at all. Varieties are propagated by veneer graftings under glass in August. The American Holly is highly piized for its bright, red berries, which remain upon the plants all winter, but as it is not every tree that produces berries in abundance, grafting has recently been resorted to for the purpose of securing a stock of productive plants for cultivating in pots, as well as in the open ground. The cions for this purpose Aould be taken from pro- ductive native trees, the lateral berry-bearing twigs, as shown in figure 98, being
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