. The beginner's garden book; a textbook for the upper grammar grades. Gardening. 80 THE BEGINNER'S GARDEN BOOK So much for softwood or leaf cuttings. Hardwood cut- tings are different. They should be seven or eight inches long, taken from such plants as dogwood, privet, grape, forsythia. The cuttings should each include two or more buds. If taken in the fall, they should be bundled, and buried where they will remain moist, but not frozen, all winter. In the spring they should be set, butt down,1 in moist earth, and tended well. It may seem a long time before leaves appear, but they will final
. The beginner's garden book; a textbook for the upper grammar grades. Gardening. 80 THE BEGINNER'S GARDEN BOOK So much for softwood or leaf cuttings. Hardwood cut- tings are different. They should be seven or eight inches long, taken from such plants as dogwood, privet, grape, forsythia. The cuttings should each include two or more buds. If taken in the fall, they should be bundled, and buried where they will remain moist, but not frozen, all winter. In the spring they should be set, butt down,1 in moist earth, and tended well. It may seem a long time before leaves appear, but they will finally come. Root cuttings of the blackberry, raspberry, sea-kale, and horse-radish, are handled much in the same way, except that in the spring they are planted horizontally, about two inches down. Hardwood cuttings, if taken in spring, are simply planted at once. Their rooting will take Fig. 49. - A grape cutting and its growth in a year. These are not all the methods Fid. 50. - Root cutting of black- berry. 1 It is well, while making the cuttings, to trim the butts slanting, the tops square, in order to tell them apart. The cuts should be made with a sharp knife, not with pruning shears, which bruise the 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 French, Allen, 1870-1946. New York, The Macmillan Co.
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