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with all its peculiarities. The multiplied hyacinth is white, blue, red, 

 single or double, as was its parent ; and the leaf, stem, root, flower 

 and fruit partake precisely of the same character as the original 

 plant produced from seed, which thus may probably be propagated 

 ad infinitnm. Of late years it has been thought, by some good 

 gardeners, that the parent plant becomes old and that it wears out ; 

 they cite the Ribston and Golden Pippins as an exemplification of 

 their theory. This is not my opinion ; and as, in ail probability, 

 the Jargonelle has been propagated from the time of the Romans in 

 the past, so may it be continued till that indefinite time when the 

 New Zealander in the future may be supposed to swallow up the 

 English as the Americans now do the Indians. 



Some plants as certain ferns, viz. many 

 aspleniums (fig. 114), the Cystoptcris bulbifera, 

 the Woodwardia radicans produce little bulbs 

 or plants on their fronds, from which we 

 readily propagate new plants. 



Besides the above mode of reproducing the 

 individual plant in its entirety, we have other 

 methods of partially propagating a plant ; 



that is to say, we may multiply the stems, the flower, and the fruit of 

 a plant whilst we have roots of a totally different species. We may 

 propagate the Jargonelle pear on the root of a common pear, or even 

 on the root of a hawthorn or quince. This process is in fact the same as 

 if a piece of skin of a black man were implanted in the body of a white 

 man which is quite possible. This mode of proceeding 

 is almost invariably followed in propagating the individuality 

 of fruits, and as an example the large majority of my pears 

 have the roots t of the quince. The manner in which we 

 effect this mode of propagating is threefold, by grafting, 

 by inarching, [and by budding. There is one secret in all 

 these processes : this is, that the cambium of the graft or 

 bud must come in contact with the cambium (or new layer 

 of forming wood under the bark of the tree) to be worked. It is of 



FlG. 114. Young Ferns growing 

 from fronds. 



