AGRICULTURE 



PLANT REPRODUCTION FROM BUDS 



Buds. Plants are usually grown from seeds, but it is sometimes 

 easier and better to grow them from buds. Every branch ends 

 in a bud, and buds are also formed at regular places on the branch. 

 These buds which continue the growth of the old plant can be used 

 to make new ones. A budded plant is sure to be like its parent 

 plant, because it is a part of it. 



There are cases in which it is not only desirable, but necessary, 

 to grow plants from buds, in order to preserve the variety. Some 

 plants do not 'come true to seed.' An apple seed, for instance, 

 instead of producing a tree that bears fruit like the one from which 

 it was taken, is more apt to produce one resembling the wild crab 



from which it originated. 

 Methods of Bud Re- 

 production. There are 

 various ways of reproduc- 

 ing plants by buds, 

 by lay'ering, cut' tings, 

 grafting, and bud'ding. 

 In all cases the purpose 

 is the same: to produce 

 from a part of an old 

 plant a new one that 

 reproduces its character- 

 istics. 



Layering. In layering, there is used a shoot which grows from 

 the root of the plant. Earth is placed over the stem of this, and 

 usually the tip is left out to continue its growth. At first it receives 

 nourishment from the parent root, but after a while the covered 



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