CHAPTER XIX 



Plant Propagation 



Hardwood Cuttings — Soft-wooded Cuttings — Making Cuttings 

 of Perennials — Leaf Cuttings — Root Cuttings — Division of Per- 

 ennials — Seed Sowing: Perennials and Annuals — Vegetables — 

 Starting Flowers Indoors — Shrub and Tree Seeds — Grafting — 



Budding — Layering 



(Readers who desire to fully inform themselves on this most fascinating of pursuits 

 are advised to obtain a copv of "Commercial Plant Propagation," by Prof. A. C. Hottes. 

 Obtainable where you bought your Garden Guide). 



WHY don't you propagate more of your plants and share your 

 good ones with your neighbor? Nothing is more interesting 

 than to get a sHp from a neighbor. Plants of this sort carry 

 with them memories of your friend which add to the charm of the 

 plant itself .§ By doing so you will add to the number of garden lovers. 



Hardwooded Cuttings 



People are afraid to cut up plants. They wish they had 

 a whole hedge of a certain shrub instead of one plant. If that 

 is true in your case, do this: In the Fall, cut up in six-inch 

 lengths the good, strong, whip-Hke branches of such plants 

 as Privet and Hydrangeas; tie them in bundles and either 

 bury them in a sandy knoll, or place them in a box of sandy 

 soil in the cellar. Absolutely cover them. Water them occa- 

 sionally. By Springtime the wood will have healed over a bit 

 at the base and the cuttings should 

 then be placed in a well prepared 

 soil so that only two buds are 

 above ground. Climbing Roses, 

 Grapes, Currants, Golden Bell, 

 Spiraeas, Lilacs, Willows, Mock 

 Orange, Dogwoods and Deutzias 

 are quite easily propagated in this 

 manner. Note the illustration; it 

 shows how wood •should not be 

 left above the top bud, and how 

 the base of cuttings should be cut 

 clean just below a bud*or|buds. 



AJhardwood If the leaVCS are 0n*the plant, cut a soft woodCrhrysanthemum) 

 l(Currant) n «• cutting. Su( h cutting nay 



cutting tnem an OlI. be 3 in. long — the best size 



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