SEEDLINGS AND SHOOTS 87 



again with incredible swiftness, on accpunt of 

 the number of adventitious buds which are im- 

 mediately thrown out below the wounds. In 

 the same way, the soft maple is often rejuve- 

 nated. A thicket of lusty shoots spring up to 

 take the place of the lost head, and by careful 

 thinning are soon fashioned into a graceful, 

 shapely outline. 



Many trees grow readily from root cuttings. 

 The hickory and the oak are examples. Indeed, 

 the fashion of producing adventitious buds 

 from the roots and sending up shoots seems to 

 be a sort of "life-insurance scheme" among the 

 trees. We see such suckers springing up about 

 stumps all over the woodland. It is a common 

 thing to find a little grove of saplings growing 

 from the roots of a fallen giant chestnut or 

 chinquapin. Some trees whose twigs droop 

 along the ground may root at a joint, after the 

 manner of a raspberry tip. The viburnum fam- 

 ily — 'better known as the cranberry tree, the 

 black haw, and the sheep berry — will root in 

 this fashion. 



