56 GROWING PLANTS BY CUTTINGS, ETC. 



PRACTICAL EXERCISES 



1. Cut off the growing tip of a stem or branch of a geranium. 

 Plant the cutting in moist earth, and after several days note 

 the result. 



2. Ask a fruit grower to show you how to graft a scion of one 

 tree to the stock of another. Learn also to remove a bud and 

 attach it to the branch of another tree. 



3. Bend a long, slender branch of a black raspberry, grapevine, 

 or rosebush to the ground and cover a section of it with four 

 inches of soil. Leave above ground several inches of the tip 

 of the branch. After the buried section takes root, the new 

 plant may be severed from the old plant. 



