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wanted. When this method of propagation is adopted in snmmer 

 with a growing shoot, the latter must be layered as it proceeds in 

 growth, and the leaves on the part above ground should be pre- 

 served and encoiiraged; consequently, the shoot will have to be 

 shallow, and the curves to be but slight. Sometimes, pressing 

 ?////'# tlie shoot at its joint the depth of its thickness in the soil, and 



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Fig. 4. -Serpentine Layering. 



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then laying small stones upon it, will l)e sufficient ; but as the 

 stones may be knocked off, small pegs are jr^referable at any time. 

 (See Fig. 4.) 



ayering by insertion of the gTowing point. — Some plants which 

 emit few roots, and these but slowly, by the previously-detailed 

 modes, will j^roduce them in surprising abiindance by merely 

 inserting the growing points or tip'^ of the shoots in Avell prepared 



Fig. 5.— Layering by insertion of the Growing Point. 



soil, and before autumn a large bimdle of roots will be formed with 

 a bud, which must be carefully preserved in transplanting, and 

 afterwards trained to form a stem. This mode, though not, in 

 general, essential for propagation, deserves notice, as it can easily 

 be tried, and doubtless will often be found successful, in the ease 

 of many i^lants difficult to propagate by other means. (See Fig. 5.) 



