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species may be treated almost like cuttings and rhizomes. 



ARTICLE 3. 

 PACKING AND TRANSPORT OF CUTTINGS. 



Cuttings always consist of sections of well-lignified branches. 

 Hence, if they have been deprived of their leaves, they dry up so 

 slowly that they retain their vitality as long as the buds and cam- 

 bium remain alive. It is evident that th^se cuttings which are 

 already covered with secondary bark (the very best protection we 

 can have for the cambiam and the buds), will possess the greatest 

 vitality of all. 



Cuttings, therefore, generally require very little special care in 

 being packed for transport. Moreover, being usually very straight, 

 they take up little space and are easily arranged. For long or 

 hot journeys they may be tied up in bundles like seedlings, or 

 packed tight in covered baskets lined with moss or some other 

 soft green stuff, especially if they still retain the greater portion 

 of their foliage. Otherwise they may be simply piled up in a 

 wheel barrow or waggon or in open baskets, if they are small, or 

 made up into bundles like faggots and carried on the head or in 

 an ordinary bullock cart. 



ARTICLE 4. 

 PACKING AND TRANSPORT OF RHIZOMES AND RHIZOME-SHOOTS. 



Rhizomes that have not yet sprouted partake of the nature of 

 seeds in that they contain within themselves all the elements for 

 the formation and development of the roots, stem and leaves of the 

 future plant. And even when they have sprouted, they possess 

 this character to a more or less considerable degree. Where the 

 resemblance with seeds ends and a difference begins is that, 

 whereas the latter may lose without detriment the greater portion 

 of their moisture, the former must always have their tissues very 

 appreciably moist. Their vitality is generally greater than that of 

 cuttings in that their lower nodes, as well as the entire rhizome 

 portion, contain numerous developed and embryo roots that can 

 stand a great deal of exposure, and in this respect they resemble 

 suckers. 



Rhizomes that have not developed aerial shoots may therefore be 

 carried a day's journey without any surrounding soil and without 

 any further precaution than that of shading them from the sun. 

 For long journeys they are best put into baskets as close as possi_ 

 ble, the empty intervals being filled with fine soft earth, which 



