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PLANT PROPAGATION 



sidered a difficult one, because the former is deciduous, 

 the latter evergreen. 



Daniel, the author, concludes from his experiments 

 that : 1. Mixed graftage should be used with plants pre- 

 senting marked differences, as between evergreen and 

 deciduous subjects ; 2, the stock does not influence the 



FIG. 201 GRAFT-PLANTING METHODS 



A, planting with dibble; D, dibble pushing soil against graft f; D, position of 

 dibble for next thrust of soil; S, loose soil in bottom of hole; B, planting in 

 trenches. 



cion as much as in ordinary graftage ; 3, such character- 

 istics as may be attributed to environment (height, vigor, 

 resistance to parasites, etc.) are affected less by the stock 

 also; but, 4, characteristics peculiar to the variety of the 

 stock (flavor, form of fruit, color of flowers, etc.) mix 

 with those of the cion much more readily by this method 

 than by the ordinary methods. 



331. End-to-end grafting, a new and not fully tested 



