Frsnuánv 22, 1919. ] 
t we allowed them to stand in the ground a 
b Е for stools Soui у 
ed as a small 
ез 
е growing season the mound 
n away with a fork and ge 
all its shoots. We found 
uie те, the 
t ain 5 
reat 
1912 ing with 
Certain points are worthy aa ater :— 
1. We te ur stools slightly wider 
apart than necessary in the first stance 
in order e able to keep separate any ad- 
mixture we might find. 
he first year or two the new stool 
fewer and coarser shoots than they аге 
doing now hese rooted less regularly than 
th of medium strength, and were often too 
coarse for working after six months’ bedding. 
5. The amount of established rooting that we 
obtained as a result of our careful earthing up 
well repaid us for the labour expend 
rooted shoots, and with most types nearly 
er з d, compared very favourably 
in d, any tm nnd n two-year be 
than hardéned wood of the last year’ wtl 
The number of roo shoots obtai annu- 
ally varied somewhat ording to the type of 
Paradise, but generally it incr = аз {һе їпа 
Vidual shoots became less coarse e 
of the stool 
ith the ag 
eet bio Fin ie fai to aver- 
age the annual take stool as 7 or 10. 
Lax THE STO 
As асе ethod ots k-bed ma 
we tried anon adi stock i nthe first rris 
on the slope, so that we conl 1 ay the whole 
ong the sur 268 о 
a the ground. As before, 
we allowed the 
se 
stock to establish aoa for a 
At 
eason befor ing y layers off 
Planting the stock was lightly tipped, ne th 
lateral shoots cut to within a bud or two 
of the main ste As with- the ols, we 
found it better to leave the stock uncovered 
until it had sent out shoots some few inche 
long. This it was induced to do all along the 
Stem as a result of the ipping and cutting in 
The whol Stem was then ulded over several 
Ames in the se as before, which process we 
П "ihe 
rue, we recommend this ated method for 
E rea grat up 
sh E nclined to produce rather more 
oots “annually and apparently they are more 
wes quality. 
9 less freely rooting types 
Doucin, Ty x vienes 
ype 4, and T 
distin netly more i ln 7 
such as 
ht to root 
is 
are straighter than 
h y 
ks 
the stools already des ribe d, where the 
f earth gives the 
se ot a strike-plou 
F STOCKS FROM STO 
arido Tun root знн 
u uch -leaved 
THe Sid 
With some v. 
о 
T Very strong secateurs to vit the а layers 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRON ICLE. 
from the p stool. But with types which 
root mainly ards the base, and even pu 
somewhat ere we found it necessary to 
them off from the Parent, often with a 
o old v 7 might be supposed that 
ma 
the st 
ot 
E 
2 
— 
кы 
Fr 
As reg : 
these one-year shoots, it is nearly always the 
83 
which appea: e of a workable s Mgr se 
nd they m be ге; more or ] as 
ate gs. Een re bedded in the ground for a 
ed as cuttings, and 1 trans 
p e HE pilos ‘their permanent eee for work- 
ing. In other words, the t leas 4 "eighteen 
months old before they are P for POM 
they may ге been several years 
e at. 
and 
upon the 
point of of quickness and 
paralaje -saving, our ARN à ‘of rooting well the 
one-y shoots on the stool save months, 
for we ied dn 2 bod medium growths, and 
bes is the vast are fit to lant ont 
once as stock Mir no bedding, and 
Fic. 32.—ALLIUM KANSUENSE IN ITS NATIVE HABITAT. 
(See p. 84) 
"A growths which root well and form the 
= 
best quality stocks. The reri ist wths 
every p e fem most shyly, and we make it a 
ractice now to break 
d agh. the contrary, 
tho finest growths, “the o whips and feathers, are 
e find these very 
b tocks, 
adil d, as the 
stool avidis the ук "ot the stocks appears 
increa 
HE BEDDING OF STOCK 
many comme read Decem which І I know, 
ius or no earth is dra the stools from 
which are annually E. Заг of any age 
they the bud well in the coming summer. 
o 
stocks, 
one ere es to the vigour of 
methods we hax de Sart of course i ide 
i f season 
bedding for a se , because they arë not 
stout enough to work, but n they are 
" better rooted than the ave ice dded 
rage be 
tock. Reginald G. Hatton, aoa South- 
Bite демант СоПеде, ve ent. 
(To be concluded.) 
