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PROPAGATION BY LAYERS. 



Fig. 1 87. A carnation layered. 



G28. Shrubby plants in pots kept under glass may either be layered by 

 laying down the entire plant on its side (622), or by 

 placing pots under it, or raising pots among its branches, 

 and layering the shoots into these. The shoot may either 

 be laid down into the pot, or brought up through a hole 

 c.\ / -f-4- in its bottom, or in its side (fig. 52, in p. 143); a tin case 

 filled with soil or moss may be suspended from the plants, 

 and the shoots ringed, as indicated in figs. 189 and 190; 

 cutting. or a ring of bark being taken off, the wounded part may 



Fig. 189. A branch ringed and prepared to be rooted in 

 a tin case without separating it from the tree. 



Fig. 190. Different branches 

 layered in tin cases. 



