. The nursery-book; a complete guide to the multiplication of plants ... Gardening; Plant propagation. 82 GRAFTAGE. the Peninsula Horticultural Society at Dover, Delaware, in 1892, and printed in the transactions of the society, is here reproduced: To the popular mind there seems to be something mys- terious in the process of graftage. People look upon it as something akin to magic, and entirely opposed to the laws of nature. It is popularly thought to represent the extreme power which man exercises over natural forces. It is strange that this opinion should prevail in these times, for the ope
. The nursery-book; a complete guide to the multiplication of plants ... Gardening; Plant propagation. 82 GRAFTAGE. the Peninsula Horticultural Society at Dover, Delaware, in 1892, and printed in the transactions of the society, is here reproduced: To the popular mind there seems to be something mys- terious in the process of graftage. People look upon it as something akin to magic, and entirely opposed to the laws of nature. It is popularly thought to represent the extreme power which man exercises over natural forces. It is strange that this opinion should prevail in these times, for the operation itself is very simple, and the process of union is nothing more than the healing of a wound. It is in no way more mysterious than the root- ing of cuttings, and it is not so unnatural, if by this expression we refer t > the relative fre- quency of the occurrences of the phenomena in nature. Nat- ural grafts are by no means rare among forest trees, and occa- sionally the union is so com- plete that the foster stock en- tirely supports and nourishes the other. A perfect inarch- graft, by means of which two oak trees have united into one, is shown in Fig. 82. Cuttings of stems, however, are very rare among wild plants; in fact, there is but one common instance, in the north, in which stem cuttings are made entirely without the aid of man, and that is the case of cer- tain brittle willows whose branchlets are easily cast by wind and snow into streams and moist places, where they some- times take root. But mere unnaturalness of any operation has no importance in discussions of phenomena attaching. Sz. A natural graft of forest Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York, The Macmillan Co.
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