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If the cuttings are allowed to remain in that 

 position, a crooked horse-radish is the result (Fig. 

 403) , although the orig- 

 inal cutting will tend 

 to become more or 

 less horizontal. How ? 

 478. Nor is it nec- 

 essary that the cuttings 

 be set in soil. They 

 may be planted in saw- 

 dust or moss ; and our 

 mothers root oleander ^"J- *<>* 

 cuttings by placing 

 them in bottles of 

 water. Or they may 

 be inserted or planted of & limb. 



Fig. 403. 



Result of the inverted 

 cutting. 



come grafts (Fig. 



A graft, 

 comprising 

 ing two 

 cions set 

 in the end 



in another plant, in '"'^^^ ^^" 



•■^ ' posed sur- 



which ease they be- faces are 



404) or "buds." Nor ir Th 



yet is it always > necessary that the graft ^^x. 

 shall be set upon another plant of the same gen- 

 eral kind. Horticulturists often graft the pear 

 upon the quince, thereby securing a dwarf er tree be- 

 cause of the slow growth and small stature of the 

 quince; and the plum is often grown upon the 

 peach because of the ease and cheapness of such 

 propagation. 



479. The unit in sexual propagation of plants 



