CONTENTS. IX 



SECTION PAGE 



51 . Rooting Sprouts by Mounding 45 



52. Summer Layering 45 



53. Spring Layering 48 



CHAPTER VI. 



PROPAGATION BY INARCHING AND FROM WOODY AND 

 IMMATURE CUTTINGS. 



54. Propagating by Inarching 50 



55. Long-scion Inarching 52 



56. Propagating by Ripe Wood Cuttings 53 



57. When and How to Prepare Cuttings 53 



58. Fall Planting of Cuttings 55 



59. Some Reasons for Fall Planting 55 



60. Spring-planted Cuttings 56 



61. Cuttings Kept in the Cellar 57 



62. Immature-growth Cuttings 57 



63. Controlling Heat and Moisture , 58 



64. Why Cuttings Need Bottom Heat 59 



65. The Hot-bed 59 



66. Preparing and Setting Green Cuttings 61 



67. Need of Buds in Plant Division 62 



68. Division of Perennials, Tubers, and Root-stalks 63 



CHAPTER VII. 



PROPAGATION BY BUDDING AND GRAFTING. 



69. Propagation by Budding 66 



70. Some of the Purposes of Budding 66 



71. Some Native Stocks that Should be Used 67 



72. Summer Budding 68 



73. How to Cut and Insert Buds 70 



74. Budding the Same Season that Pits are Planted 71 



75. After-care of Summer Buds 71 



76. June Budding 72 



77. Ring Budding - 73 



78. Grafting 74 



79. Limits of Grafting 75 



80. Cutting and Packing Scions 75 



81. Taking Up and Packing Stocks 76 



