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of producing branches some distance from the ground which bend 
down, and when they meet the soil broaden out and root, throwing 
up erect stems which become independent trees. The tree is 110° 
in circumference and has given rise to six such. independent 
growths, one 65°™ in circumference; the others 45, 30, 27-5, 12-5; and 
Fic. 2.---Cryptomeria japonica, show- 
Fic. 
clothed to the ground with shoots 
ers; two suckers in view. 
12.5°", all 30°" from the ground. The highest of such rooting 
branches is given off from the trunk 60°™ above its base. 
in circumference until it touches the ground, where it flattens and 
broadens to 15°™ in surface view, and creeps some dista 
the trunk before rising into the erect shoot. 
of the daughter trees and two of the suckers. 
Several specimens of Phoenix dactylijera in the garden produce 
1.—Pinus canariensis: trunk 
: . ing one of five daughter trees from suck- 
tis 85°” 
nce from 
Fig. 2 shows only one 
