"You see," said the Chief Gardener, "we pick the berries, which are the seeds, so all berry vines must have some other way of spreading. The red raspberries do it in a different way. They send out runners, too, but they are from the roots, and when the sprouts come up, we call them suckers. Many kinds of plants have suckers, and there are some kinds of trees sprout so badly that they cannot be used for shade."
"What a lot of ways there are for plants to start!" said Davy.
"Suppose we try to think of as many as we can," said the Chief Gardener. "You begin, Prue."
"Seeds and roots and bend-overs and stuck-ins," said Prue. "That's four."
A BLACK RASPBERRY VINE PREPARING TO SPREAD
Davy and the Chief Gardener laughed.
"Well, that is a good start, but there are a good many kinds of roots and 'bend-overs,' and what are 'stuck-ins?'"