THE CULTURE OF PLANTS 



about the mother-plant, whereof are made off-sets, 

 by severing or parting them therefrom. 



Take off these on trees and shrubs, with a violent, 

 but cleanly pull ; be careful of bulbous roots and 

 anemonies, that you wound not the mother- 

 plant. 



To force as are unapt to put forth suckers natur- 

 ally, you may bair the root of those of a woody 

 substance ; cut it into the pith, slit it down a little, 

 and put in a stick to keep the gap open ; level in 

 the earth again, so shall the slip raised spring, and 

 so much the better, if there was an eye immedi- 

 ately belowthe cut. When the fibres are grown, cut 

 off this plant to live by it self. 



Another way is to cut the root through, a little 

 distance from the tree, with a cleanly slop down- 

 wards, and raise up the butt-end of the root so cut 

 off, till it be a little above the surface ; as for root- 

 graffing, hereafter to be described, level in and 

 tread the earth again, so shall the piece left at the 

 tree send forth young roots, and the root so cut and 

 raised send out a top. 



Rich free earth for bulbs and other roots, will 

 assist them to put forth suckers. 



Cutting the tops of fibrous-rooted herbs, in grow- 

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