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tings f How made and how handled? Name plants that are 

 propagated by means of softwood cuttings and hardwood cuttings. 

 What is a "single eye" cutting, and how planted? 



What do you understand by the term grafting ? Cion ? 

 Stock f What is meant by the word "bud" as used by grafters or 

 budders? Why do the cion and stock unite? Why is it necessary 

 to bind up the wounds or to cover them with wax? Explain the 

 operation of cleft- grafting. Of shield-budding. Under what 

 circumstances and on what plants are these methods commonly 

 used? Of what age of wood is the cion usually made? When is 

 grafting performed? Budding? How are plants made to be dwarf 

 by means of grafting or budding 12416ft)? 



Chapter 10 



The preparation of the land for seed will now 

 be considered. Having learned how plants are 

 propagated by the gardener, we may take a 

 broader view of the subject, and see how they 

 are started in the fields of the farmer. We shall 

 now have to do with (1) the general factors that 

 determine the preparation of the seed-bed; (2) 

 the demands made by the plants on the soil; (3) 

 the actual making of the seed-bed; (4) the ap- 

 plication of the foregoing principles to such 

 fundamental crops as wheat, Indian corn and 

 potatoes. 



What is said about the loss from faulty preparation of land ? 

 Why is it so very important that the farmer should know what the 

 ideal seed-bed should be? What is a seed-bed, as used in its 

 agricultural sense (243a)? What are the two factors that govern 

 the preparation of the land for the seed-bed? 



Do fine seeds demand a different kind of seed-bed from very 



