. Garden guide; the amateur gardeners' handbook. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book . plants can soon beseparated from the oldone. In another type oflayering suited to Goose-berries and many ornamentals, a bush is mounded so that each shootroots, making from five to twenty-five young plants instead cf they are well rooted the plant can be divided and each part will bea separate plant. Strawberry runners are naturalor voluntary layers. Enough of them can beleft to start a new bed to
. Garden guide; the amateur gardeners' handbook. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book . plants can soon beseparated from the oldone. In another type oflayering suited to Goose-berries and many ornamentals, a bush is mounded so that each shootroots, making from five to twenty-five young plants instead cf they are well rooted the plant can be divided and each part will bea separate plant. Strawberry runners are naturalor voluntary layers. Enough of them can beleft to start a new bed to take the place of theold one. Raspberries are propagated by bend-ing down their tips and covering with soil. Thetips root, and the resulting new plants may rootnicely whenthey touchthe soil, andSquash stemsmay be en-couraged toroot at sev-eral places ,,,,.,, . , , „ , , . , . *^ , Method of layering a woody or half-woody plant, as for instance, by covering a Rhododendron or a Carnation, a, Slit or tongue cut half way .1 ... - through the stem; b, Pebble to keep slit open; c. Peg for holdingineir JOiniS. down the layer; d, A stake to keep the shoot firm. CHAPTER XX Transplanting Basic Principles—Transplanting Seedlings—Transplanting toOpen Ground—What and What Not to Transplant—TransplantingShrubs and Small Trees—Frozen Ball Method of Transplanting—Transplanting Fruit Trees—Moving Large Trees—OperationsResembling Transplanting THE operation of transplanting is, first of all, a means of savingtime in gardening. Whether it is the setting out of a Tomatoplant started indoors weeks before seed could have been sownoutside, or the moving of a 30-foot tree to produce an effect that wouldotherwise have taken as many years to achieve, the time element isthe important factor. Of course there are other reasons for trans-planting. One may desire to rearrange his garden plan; it may benecessary to thin out an overcrowded stand of perennials (and
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