216 PLANNING AND PLANTING 



HOW PLANTS ARE PROPAGATED 



IT will be of interest, no doubt, to our readers 

 to have just a smattering of knowledge as to how 

 plants are propagated, and you may find a degree 

 of pleasure sometime in making experiments of 

 your own along some of these lines, for most folk 

 enjoy doing something more or less of a creative 

 nature. 



Methods of producing plants may be divided as 

 follows: From seeds or bulbs, from plant cut- 

 tings, root cuttings, leaf cuttings, divisions, bud- 

 ding, grafting and layering. 



The process of nature in developing the plant 

 from seed or bulb is wholly a natural process and 

 will be given no particular discussion here, con- 

 fining our attention rather to those more or less 

 artificial methods where the hand of man comes in 

 and works together with nature in the production 

 of quantity or quality. 



We will describe the various processes in the 

 order named in the forepart of this chapter, the 

 first then of which will be the production of new 

 plant life from plant cuttings. Different varieties 

 will require the use of somewhat different methods, 

 and then of course it is only certain plants that 



