The Nursery-book: A Complete Guide to the Multiplication and Pollination of PlantsRural Publishing Company, 1891 - 304 páginas This little handbook aims at nothing more than an account of the methods commonly employed in the propagation and crossing of plants, and its province does not extend, therefore, to the discussion of any of the ultimate results or influences of these methods. All such questions as those relating to the formation of buds, the reciprocal influences of cion and stock, comparative advantages of whole and piece roots, and the results of pollination, do not belong here. In its preparation I have consulted freely all the best literature of the subject, and I have been aided by many persons. The entire volume has been read by skilled propagators, so that even all such directions as are commonly recommended in other countries have also been sanctioned, if admitted, as best for this. In the propagation of trees and shrubs and other hardy ornamentals, I have had the advice of the head propagator of one of the largest nurseries in this country. |
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Acanthacea Amaryllideæ autumn bark bell-glass Bignoniacea bottom heat bulbels bulbs cion cold frame Compositæ Coniferæ cool house corms covered Cruciferæ cuttings of firm cuttings of half-ripened cuttings of ripened cuttings of young cuttings planted early spring Euphorbiacea flower frame gentle heat germinate grafting green cuttings grown from seeds growth half-ripened shoots half-ripened wood hand-glass Increased by cuttings Increased by divisions Increased by seeds inserted in sand layers Leguminosa Liliacea loam Malvacea moist Myrtacea offsets Orchidea Orchids out-doors peat placed in sand pollen pot of sand Propagated by cuttings Propagated by divisions Propagated by seeds pseudo-bulbs ripened cuttings ripened wood root cuttings root freely Rosacea Rubiacea Rutacea sand under glass sandy soil Scrophularineæ season seedlings seeds and divisions seeds sown sometimes soon as ripe sowing sown as soon sown in spring species stem Sterculiacea stocks stratified suckers summer trees tubers usually varieties winter young plants young shoots
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Página 72 - Later Treatment. Leave the raffia or string about two or three weeks when the bud will have "stuck." Then remove the raffia. It is the common practice to draw a sharp knife over the strings on the side opposite the bud, completely severing them, and allowing them to fall off as they will. The bud will remain dormant during the winter, and will begin to grow in the spring.
Página 94 - CLAY. — ^ cow-dung, free from straw, and f clay, or clayey loam, with a little hair, like that used in plaster, to prevent its cracking. Beat and temper it for two or three days until it is thoroughly incorporated. When used it should be of such a consistency as to be easily put on and shaped with the hands.
Página 95 - Waxed String for Root-grafting. — Into a kettle of melted wax place balls of No. 18 knitting cotton' Turn the balls frequently, and in five minutes they will be thoroughly saturated, when they are dried and put away for future use. This material is strong enough, and at the same time breaks so easily as not to injure the hands. Any of the resin and beeswax waxes may be used. When the string is used, it should be warm enough to stick without tying.
Página 11 - ... within reasonable limits, the greater is usually the gain in rapidity of sprouting. This fact is interesting, in face of the experience that very profuse watering after sowing gives an opposite result. (Cf. § II.) 2. This gain in rapidity of sprouting in soaked samples is really fictitious, however, inasmuch as germination actually begins in the soaked seeds before the dry samples are sown. In truth, the soaked seeds are sown earlier than the dry ones. If this advance in period of sowing is...
Página 194 - ... or sandy soil, or they may be stratified and sown together well with the sand in the spring. Cuttings six to eight inches long, of the mature wood, inserted two-thirds their length, usually grow readily, especially if taken in August or September and stored during winter. Stronger plants are usually obtained by layers, and the English varieties are nearly always layered in this country.
Página 95 - Turn the balls frequently, and in five minutes they will be thoroughly saturated, when they are dried and put away for future use. This material is strong enough, and at the same time breaks so easily as not to injure the hands. Any of the resin and beeswax waxes may be used. When the string is used, it should be warm enough to stick without tying. 19. Waxed Cloth. — Old calico or thin muslin is rolled on a stick and placed in melted wax. When saturated it is allowed to cool by being unrolled on...
Página 55 - ... injury which might result to the parent plant from a severe winter. They may be taken as early as August, or as soon as the wood is mature, and be stripped of leaves. Callusing can then take place in time to allow of fall planting. Or, the cuttings taken in early fall may be planted immediately, and be allowed to callus where they stand. All fall cutting-beds should be mulched, to prevent the heaving of the cuttings.
Página 73 - Peaches and some other fruits are sold after having made one season's growth from the bud, but pears, apples, and most other trees are not often sold until the second or third year. "June budding" is a term applied to the budding of stocks in early summer while they are yet growing rapidly.
Página 21 - FIG- 2three inches wide, hung upon two wire pivots or hinges some two inches long. At their upper edges and equidistant from either end, the plates are joined by a firm spiral spring, which serves to throw the upper edges apart, and to cause the lower edges to join. This trough is now filled with the required number of seeds, and is then inserted into the earth to a given depth, when the fingers push inward on the spring and the trough opens and delivers the seeds.
Página 51 - Nearly all soft and loose wooded plants grow readily from hardwood cuttings but plants with denser wood are propagated more easily from soft or growing wood.