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THE BEGINNER'S GARDEN BOOK 



So much for softwood or leaf cuttings. Hardwood cut- 

 tings are different. They should be seven or eight inches long, 



taken from such plants as 

 dogwood, privet, grape, 

 forsythia. The cuttings 

 should each include two 

 or more buds. If taken 

 in the fall, they should 

 be bundled, and buried 

 where they will remain 

 moist, but not frozen, all 

 winter. In the spring 

 they should be set, butt 

 down, 1 in moist earth, 

 and tended well. It may 

 seem a long time before 

 leaves appear, but they 

 will finally come. 



Root cuttings of the 

 blackberry, raspberry, 

 sea-kale, and horse-radish, 

 are handled much in the 

 same way, except that in 

 the spring they are planted horizontally, about two inches 

 down. 



Hardwood cuttings, if taken 

 in spring, are simply planted at 

 once. Their rooting will take 

 longer. 



Fig. 49. 



- A grape cutting and its growth 

 in a year. 



These are not all the methods 



Fid. 50. 



- Root cutting of black- 

 berry. 



1 It is well, while making the cuttings, to trim the butts slanting, the tops 

 square, in order to tell them apart. The cuts should be made with a sharp 

 knife, not with pruning shears, which bruise the bark. 



