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MATURITIES, YIELDS, AND MULTIPLICATION 



Propagation-Tables 



Tabular statement of the ways in which plants are propagated 1 



A. BY SEEDS 



B. BY BUDS 



1. Root-tips. 



2. Stolons and runners. 



3. Layers proper. 



Simple. 

 Serpentine. 

 Mound or Stools. 

 Pot or Chinese. 



1. By undivided parts. Separa- 

 tion. (Bulbs, corms, bulblets, bulb 

 scales, tubers, etc.) 



Division. 

 Cuttings 



proper. 

 Of stems. 



2. By divided parts Growing 



Cuttage \ wood. 



Ripened 

 wood. 

 Of tubers. 

 Of roots. 

 Of leaves. 



1. Budding: Shield, flute, veneer, 



ring, annular, whistle or tubular. 



2. Grafting: Whip, saddle, splice, 



veneer, cleft, bark, herbaceous, 

 double, cutting. 



Particular methods by which various fruits are multiplied 



Barberry 

 Orange 

 Figs . 

 Mulberry 



Olive 



Pomegranate 



Apple and Pear . . . . 

 Peach and other stone-fruits 



Quince 



Grape 



Currant and Gooseberry . . 

 Raspberries, red .... 

 Raspberries, black and purple 



Blackberry 



Dewberry 



Dwarf Juneberry .... 

 Cranberry 



Cuttings of mature wood ; seeds. 



Seeds; seedlings budded or grafted. 



Cuttings, either of soft or mature wood. 



Cuttings of mature wood. Some varieties are 



root-grafted, and some are budded. 

 Cuttings of mature or even old wood. Chips 



from the trunks of old trees are sometimes used.' 

 Cuttings, layers, and seeds. 

 Seeds ; seedlings budded or grafted. 

 Seeds ; seedlings budded. Peach-trees are sold at 



one year from the bud, but other stone-fruit 



trees are planted when two or three years old. 

 Cuttings, usually ; the cuttings often grafted. 

 Cuttings of from one to three buds ; layers. 

 Cuttings ; gooseberry oftener by mound-layers. 

 Suckers from the root ; root-cuttings. 

 Layers from tips of canes ; root-cuttings. 

 Root-cuttings ; suckers from the root. 

 Layers of tips of the canes ; root-cuttings. 

 Sprouts or suckers from the root. 

 Layers or divisions. 



Modified from a synopsis prepared by B. M. Watson, Jr., Bussey Institution. 



