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. 1902 Excerpt: ... are thinned in June after flowering. All seed-pods are best removed unless seed ia required. In the pruning of shrubs the cultivator would do well to take a leaf out of the book of the fruit-grower, whose main idea is to avoid congestion of growth, and to remove all dead, dying, and weak wood. Propagation.--There are ...
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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. 1902 Excerpt: ... are thinned in June after flowering. All seed-pods are best removed unless seed ia required. In the pruning of shrubs the cultivator would do well to take a leaf out of the book of the fruit-grower, whose main idea is to avoid congestion of growth, and to remove all dead, dying, and weak wood. Propagation.--There are several methods by which hardy trees and shrubs may be increased, though this cultural detail is not of much moment to the small gardener, whose best plan is to purchase to replace losses. Of the methods in general use in the propagation of hardy shrubs there is none more popular than that of cuttings. Some cuttings root more readily when taken with a heel--Roses, for instance; while others simply require to be taken off at a node, or a joint. All must be kept in the shade. A handlight or a cold frame will facilitate the rooting of the majority of cuttings of hardy trees and shrubs. Many of the hardiest and best-known evergreens are propagated from terminal cuttings of the ripened shoots taken in autumn. Cuttings of deciduous shrubs and trees should be taken in summer: such must be rooted before the leaves fall. Terminal cuttings of young ripened wood should be used. Occasionally hardy shrubs are propagated by layering or by suckers; while in many cases they can only readily be increased by seeds. With some of the familiar berry-bearing subjects this is a comparatively easy matter. The seed is rubbed in sand to separate it from the mass, and then sown in boxes, stood in a cold frame, or else in the open border, according to the nature of the particular plant under treatment. Less often shrubs are propagated by grafting, as in the case of fruit-trees; but the method does not find favour with amateurs by reason of the large percentage of failure...
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