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AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



CHINESE LAYERINCx. 



Fig. 304. 



cord or wire between the joints. 



In the process known by this 

 name, a young shoot is pegged 

 down flat at its length, and 

 covered about two inches deep, 

 each bud being expected to 

 form a plant, which they often 

 fail to do, though perhaps this ' 

 defect might be remedied by 

 pretty tight constriction with 



AMERICAN SPAN LAYERING. 



This is a some- 

 what new process, 

 first practiced, so far 

 as he is aware, by 

 the author, though 

 he has learned re- 

 cently that it has 

 also been used by others, and is always found completely suc- 

 cessful. It is performed by pegging into the ground a single 

 joint every foot or eighteen inches, cm-ving the shoot upward 

 between each two layers. Each layered joint may be tongued 

 or not, according to the kind of plant under treatment. This 

 mode is applicable only to running plants, but ten or a dozen 

 layers may be readily made by it from a single pretty long 

 shoot fif such as are suitable. 



HERBACEOUS HILL LAYERING. 



Hill layering, so far as applicable to fimit-trees and woody 

 plants in general, has been described page 200 ; but this mode 

 is peculiar-ly adapted to the propagation of those plants, as 

 Pinks, &c., which do not make long shoots, or which require 

 tongueing, but are too brittle to bear bending. In these cases 

 a dished hill of good earth is made entirely around the plant, 

 and the tongue of the layer is made on the under side of the 



