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the proper season for replanting. They may generally be 

 cut into as many pieces as they have eyes, and each eye 

 will produce a plant. The tubers of the Chinese yam have 

 no visible buds, but if cut into pieces aud planted, buds 

 will push out from the wrinkles that appear upon its 

 surface. 



Runners are thrown out by the strawberry and many 

 other plants. They spring from the crown of the plant, 

 deriving from it' their nourishment, and at a greater or 

 less distance from the parent plant throw out a bud above 

 and small projections or rudiments of roots, which, in 

 favorable conditions, strike into the soil and help to nour- 

 ish the young plant above. The growing point of the 

 runner extends to form another new plant beyond, lnm- 

 ners cannot well take root in dry weather, but in contact 

 with moist soil the roots soon strike. To facilitate the 

 rooting, the joint is often pegged down, or a small stone 

 placed over it a little behind the bud, which preserves the 

 earth in a moist condition as well as keeps the joint close 

 to the soil. If it is desired to obtain as many plants as 

 possible, do not permit the parent plant to waste its vigor 

 in producing flowers and fruit, but cut off the flower 

 stalks as they appear. If strong plants are desired, stop 

 each runner after it has made one or two plants. The 

 new plants, when well rooted, are ready for removal at 

 the proper season. 



Suckers. — These proceed either from the root or from 

 the stem, or collar of the plant. Root Suckers are pro- 

 duced from those plants which send out stray horizontal 

 roots, as the sucker is in fact a bud from one of these roots 

 which has pushed its way through the soil and become a 

 stem. As this stem generally forms fibrous roots of its 

 own above the point of junction with the parent root, it 

 may be slipped off and planted like a rooted cutting. 



Root suckers are thrown up by some plants, like the 



