This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ... and tomato plants to wilt before F, G'102 A sheared, i. P, ant resetting, with the idea that by so domg the plants will develop new roots instead of endeavoring to revive the old ones. These species are quite tenacious of life and survive much abuse. Frequently cabbage plants for transplanting are simply pulled up ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ... and tomato plants to wilt before F, G'102 A sheared, i. P, ant resetting, with the idea that by so domg the plants will develop new roots instead of endeavoring to revive the old ones. These species are quite tenacious of life and survive much abuse. Frequently cabbage plants for transplanting are simply pulled up from the seed bed. Inducing plants to fruit. It is natural that all mature perennial plants should flower and fruit annually, but it is a wellknown fact that many do not do so. Fruiting is a very exhausting process. Annuals are killed outright by it, while in perennials a heavy crop of fruit may so depress the vitality of the plant as to make it impossible for it to bear at all the following season. When a plant sets more fruits than it should bear, some of them should be removed. On the other hand, in all plants in which great development of the vegetative parts is desired, it is customary to remove all the flowering shoots and fruits as soon as they appear. Thus we pick off the berries of asparagus and pinch out the flower stalks of rhubarb. Annuals may be made to take on a perennial character by removing the flower buds as fast as they form. If one desires flowers and fruit, however, all efforts should be bent toward aiding the plant to store up reserve food, since the more food it has, the likelier it is to bloom. Fruiting is really a device of the plant for self-preservation, and whatever threatens the growth processes may serve to bring it about. A plant injured by lightning or defoliated by insects is likely to spring into bloom again even in autumn. Pinching back the tips, removing some of the roots, withholding water, or planting in sterile soil will usually induce the plant to fruit. Certain varieties of strawberries, pears, apples, plums...
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