THE SEEDLING-INARCH 



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of a variety is very desirable. This shortening by a year or 

 more of the time required for the fruiting of a new variety is be- 

 lieved to be a matter of such unusual importance as to be worthy 

 of the widest publicity among all interested in the cultivation 

 of plants. The discussion embodied in this Bulletin, while it 

 indicates the present stage of our studies of certain tropical fruit 

 industries, must be considered as having a much more general 

 application than to these few new fruit possibilities which are 

 as yet little known to the American public." 



FIG. 1. Rose seedlings, a cross between two varieties, four weeks 



after germation. Each seedling is grown close to the rim of a 



2-inch pot so as to facilitate an easy approach to the 



stock plants when inarching 



Those parts of the Bulletin which will especially interest 

 our readers are here given : 



While investigating the asexual propagation of some tropical 

 fruit trees and other plants, at the request of Dr. B. T. Gal- 

 loway, chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, it was discovered 

 by the writer that a large number of hard-wooded shrubs and 

 trees are capable of very rapid increase when propagated by 

 processes which may be termed the seedling-inarch and nurse- 

 plant methods. 



