. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 912 LIGUSTBUM LIGUSTRUM as shown in Fig. 1372, especially if dug with spade and given short roots. If 3-year plants, not cut back, are used, the base is open, as the old wood at the lower part of the plant has had its
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 912 LIGUSTBUM LIGUSTRUM as shown in Fig. 1372, especially if dug with spade and given short roots. If 3-year plants, not cut back, are used, the base is open, as the old wood at the lower part of the plant has had its side branches weakened or killed by crowding and they do not readily branch out. Plants. method of makine Privet hedge. (Scale yi in. to ft.) grown by this method are frequently planted in a double row. Second method. — Cuttings of 5-6 inches of stout, 1-year wood, are made in November. The cuttings are made short so that the roots will not be cut oft by the tree- digger. The leaves are stripped off, and the cuttings tied in small bundles, as lirge bundles mold. These are buried, tops up, over winter. In the spring, before growth starts, they are planted in rich, mellow land 4 inches apart, with rows 8 inches apart. To plant, a back furrow is plowed in the center of the block, the top raked off. a line stretched and pegged down. The cuttings can then be inserted nearly full length. The trampling of the row settles the soil enough to expose the top bu<ls. With a one-horse plow the bottom of the furrow is loosened where the planters have packed the soil, and new furrows are made around the strip planted. The cuttings are tilled during summer with a wheel-hoe or hand-plow. To make wide plants, the tips of the shoots are pinched when they are about 3 inches long. This is repeated at intervals of about three weeks during the summer. Nitrate of soda may be used to hasten growth. This method produces a plant as shown in Fig. 1273. The plants may be dug in the fall and heeled-in,
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