CHAPTER SEVEN. 

 SOME SPECIAL KINDS OF MULTIPLICATION. 



L General. There are some special methods whereby 

 organisms multiply themselves, which are rather common 

 but do not exactly fall under any of the heads discussed 

 above. In some respects they may be thought of as 

 forms of budding, but they are not exactly so. They 

 occur in so many different plants and in so many different 

 ways that it seems desirable to describe them separately. 



Figure 10. The reproduction of the strawberry plant by runners. From 

 Coulter's Plant Life and Plant Uses. 



2. Reproduction by Runners. (Stolons). Suppose you 

 have put out a good healthy strawberry plant. As soon 



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