CHAPTER VI 



Fruit Plantations and Their Care 



Order your plants with reason, but Insist upon their obedience. 



■ — Orange Judd Farmer. 



PROPAGATION 



Several methods of propagation are so simple 

 that any amateur may practice them. Probably the 

 simplest of all is layering. In this case a new plant 

 is procured without severing a stem from the parent 

 plant. The simplest forms of this method are with 

 the strawberry, which sends out runners that need 

 only be anchored with stone or clod in order to 

 take root, and with the blackcap raspberry, which 

 takes root from the tips of the present season's 



LAYERING 

 A, Black Raspberry; B, Strawberry; C, Grape; D, Quince. 



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