PROPAGATION BY LAYEES. 



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(D.) Reversed layering. Reversed layering may be used 

 for replacing "misses," or for establishing an American 



Fig. 46. Multiple Layering. 



rootling by means of an American scion grafted on a 



European stock. A cane (Fig. 47) is selected on the mother 



plant, its extremity 



bent and driven 



down in the ground 



to a depth of 8 to 10 



inches, the soil 



having been dug up 



and manured. All 



the buds between 



the mother plant ^ 



and the soil, except 



those two nearer the 



soil, are removed. 



RpOting takes place Fig . 4 7. -Reversed Layering. 



within a year, and it 



is cut from the mother the following year. Strange as it 

 may seem, no ill effects result from the turning up-side-down 

 of the stem of the young vine which this process entails, the 



