PROPAGATION BY SUCKERS AND DIVISIONS, 177 



plants, which are frequently transplanted or renewed from 



Suckers from old Pear, Cherry, Plum, and other kinds 

 of fruit trees may, under some circumstancss, be worth 

 preserving, especially when other means of propagation 

 are not at hand ; but trees raised from these suckers are 

 seldoni as vigorous, productive and healthy as those prop- 

 agated by other and more scientific methods. The same 

 is true of many kinds of forest trees which sucker more 

 or less freely ; and while there may be no difficulty in 

 transplanting the sucl^rsyand making them grow, they 

 ire, as a rule, ipferaaTto seedlings. 



are manj^mds^oi herbaceous plants, such as 

 Japan Anemones, the Pachysandras, Lilies-of-the-Valley, 

 and same of the herbaceous Spiraeas, that are usually 

 propagated by- suckers, but they are so frequently trans- 

 planted and divided that no apparent deterioration has 

 as yet been observed from this long continued mode of 

 propagation. 



PROPAGATION BY DIVISION. In propagating plants 

 by divisions, we take~attvantage of all the various forms 

 of growth wherein buds or sprouts appear on the crowns, 

 side shoots, or the base, of the stems. With many kinds 

 of herbaceous plants, division of the clumps of the buds, 

 stems and roots is the most common mode of propagation. 

 There are also various kinds of ligneous plants which 

 may be rapidly multiplied by divisions, employing for 

 this purpose the sprouts which spring up from the base 

 of their stems. The number of these sprouts may be 

 greatly increased by severely heading-back the main stems 

 early in spring, thereby forcing the stump to produce a 

 largo number, and permitting the entire forces of the 

 r^oots, to be expended in producing buds and sprouts. 

 After tliese sprouts have reached a moderate size they 

 may be ban^ejjjp and their bases covered withjsoiL to 

 induce the formation of roots atffiisoTnT, as described 



