. The nursery-book; a complete guide to the multiplication of plants ... Gardening; Plant propagation. CUTTINGS OF GROWING WOOD. 65 cactuses, many euphorbias and yuccas. Sections of these spongy trunks will grow, also. Truncheons of cycad trunks may also give rise to plants (see Chapter VI.). Even saw-logs of our common trees, as elm and ash, will sprout while in the "boom," or water. Green-wood cuttings are more commonly employed than those from the mature wood, as they "strike" more quickly, they can be handled under glass in the winter, and more species can be propagated
. The nursery-book; a complete guide to the multiplication of plants ... Gardening; Plant propagation. CUTTINGS OF GROWING WOOD. 65 cactuses, many euphorbias and yuccas. Sections of these spongy trunks will grow, also. Truncheons of cycad trunks may also give rise to plants (see Chapter VI.). Even saw-logs of our common trees, as elm and ash, will sprout while in the "boom," or water. Green-wood cuttings are more commonly employed than those from the mature wood, as they "strike" more quickly, they can be handled under glass in the winter, and more species can be propagated by them than by hard-wood cuttings. "Slips " are green-wooded cuttings, but the term is often restricted to designate those which are made by pulling or "slipping" off a small side-shoot, and it is com- monly applied to the multiplication of plants in window- gardens. All soft-wooded plants and many ornamental shrubs are increased by green cuttings. There are two gen- eral classes of green-wood cuttings : those made from the soft and still growing wood; and those made from the nearly ripened green wood, ^ as in Azalea Indica, oleander ficus, etc. House plants, as geraniums, coleuses, carna- tions, fuchsias, and the like, , are grown from the soft j^ young wood, and many harder-wooded plants are grown in the same way. Sometimes true hard wood is used, as in camellia. In making cuttings from soft and growing shoots, the first thing to learn is the proper texture or age of A very soft and flabby cutting does not grow readily, or if it does it is **• Tou^handbrittu particularly liable to damp-off, and it usually makes a weak plant. Too old wood is slow to root, makes a poor, stunted plant, and is handled with diffi- culty in many species. The ordinary test for beginners. 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 p
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