OF PROPAGATION BY CUTTINGS. 199 



Mr. Knight, of his mode of striking the Mulberry, is 

 selected : — 



" A considerable number of cuttings were taken 

 from the most vigorous bearing branches of a Mul- 

 berry tree, in the middle of November, 1812, and 

 were immediately reduced to the length adapted to 

 small pots, in which I proposed them ultimately to be 

 planted, and which were between four and five inches 

 deep. Each cutting was composed of about two parts 

 of two-years-old wood, that is, wood of the preceding 

 year, and about one third of yearling wood, the pro- 

 dace of the preceding summer ; and the bottom of 

 each was cut so much aslope, that its surface might 

 be nearly parallel with that of the bottom of the pot 

 in which it was to be placed. 



" The cuttings were then inserted in the common 

 ground, under a south wall, and so deeply immersed 

 in it, that one bud only remained visible above its 

 surface ; and in this situation theyremained till April. 

 At this period the buds were much swollen, and the 

 upper ends of the cuttings appeared similar to those 

 of branches which had been shortened in the preced- 

 ing autumn, and become capable of transmitting any 

 portion of the ascending fluid. The bark at the lower 

 ends had also begun to emit those processes which 

 usually precede the production of roots. The cuttings 

 were now removed to the pots to which they had 

 been previously fitted, and placed in a moderate hot- 

 bed ; and a single bud only of each cutting remained 

 visible above the mould, and that being partially co- 

 vered ; and in this situation they vegetated with so 



