PROPAGATION BY LAYERS. 47 



after having about one-third of its length cut away, is 

 laid down level in a trench five or six inches deep, and 

 secured with stones or pegs. As soon as the buds on the 

 cane make a growth of several inches, cover the layered . 

 cane with an inch or two of soil. Continue covering, as 

 the young canes increase in length, until the trench is 

 filled. Leave the young shoots about a foot apart (fig. 

 48). With good attention they will be well rooted by 

 fall, when the old cane is separated from the parent and 

 taken up entire. The rooted plants can now be cut 

 apart and planted in nursery rows or where they are to 



Pig. 49 



remain. Fig. 49 represents stool layering, which is ap- 

 plied to the quince and the Paradise and Doucain apples 

 for raising stocks. 



The plant is cut down to a few buds before growth 

 commences in spring, and during the following season a 

 number of vigorous shoots spring up from the stump. 

 The next fall or spring the dirt is drawn up so as to 

 cover the old stump. One or two years after hilling up, 

 the young shoots become well rooted, and are_takeufrom 



