PROPAGATION BY LAYERING. 



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course of one season. This is called serpenthie layering 

 (fig. 62). Tlie Quince^ Paradise^ and Doucain stocks, 

 where raised in large quantities, are proj)agated 

 in a different way from that described. The pro- 

 cess requires much less labor ; and where plants 

 root so freely 

 as they do, it 

 answers every 

 purpose. 



We will take 

 a plant of the 

 quince, for ex- ^'''- ^^• 



ample, and, in ^'"- ^^' Serpentlue layer. 



the spring, before growth commences, we cut it doTvm 

 nearly to the ground, leaving four or five buds at its base 

 {A^ fig. 63). During that season, a number of vigorous 

 shoots will be made. The following autumn or spring the 

 earth is drawn up around the base of the plant, so that 



the crown w^here it 

 w^as cut will be 

 covered, and, con- 

 sequently, the base 

 of all the shoots 

 for several inches 

 in height. Dur- 

 ing the next sum- 

 mer's growth every 

 branch is suffi- 

 ciently rooted to 

 be separated and 

 placed in nursery 



F/^. 63, Mound layering or banking up. A, tlie point j.^^.g ^]^g followiuo" 

 at which the mother plant was cut back. ^ ^ ^ C? 



spring. This is the 

 way to obtain strong stocks ; for the cutting back of the 

 mother plant produces very vigorous shoots the first 



Fig. 63. 



