[CONTENTS.]

CHAPTER I.

Seedage[9-24]
Regulation of Moisture[9]
Requirements of Temperature[14]
Preparatory Treatment of Seeds[15]
Sowing[19]
Miscellaneous Matters[21]
Spores[24]

CHAPTER II.

Separation[25-31]

CHAPTER III.

Layerage[32-38]

CHAPTER IV.

Cuttage[39-62]
Devices for Regulating Heat and Moisture[39]
Soils and General Methods[46]
Particular Methods—Kinds of Cuttings[51]
1. Tuber Cuttings[52]
2. Root Cuttings[53]
3. Stem Cuttings[54]
4. Leaf Cuttings[60]

CHAPTER V.

Graftage[63-96]
General Considerations[63]
Particular Methods[67]
Budding[67]
Grafting[76]
Grafting Waxes[92]

CHAPTER VI.

The Nursery List[97-285]

CHAPTER VII.

Pollination[286-298]
General Requirements[287]
Methods[291]
Crossing of Flowerless Plants[297]

NURSERY.—An establishment for the rearing of plants. In America the word is commonly used in connection with the propagation of woody plants only, as fruit-trees and ornamental trees and shrubs. This is erroneous. The word properly includes the propagation of all plants by whatever means, and in this sense it is used in this book.

Tabular Statement of the Ways in which Plants are Propagated.

A. By Seeds.—Seedage.
B. By Buds.I. On their own roots.1. By undetached parts.—Layerage.Root-tips.
Runners.
Layers proper:
Simple.
Serpentine.
Mound.
Pot or Chinese.
2. By detached parts.1. By undivided parts.—Separation (Bulbs, corms, bulbels,
bulblets, bulb-scales, tubers, etc).
2. By divided parts.—Cuttage.Division.
Cuttings proper:
Of tubers.
Of roots.
Of stems.
Of leaves.
II. On roots of other plants.—Graftage.1. By detached scions.I. Budding: Shield, flute, veneer, ring, annular, whistle or tubular.
II. Grafting:
Whip.
Saddle.
Splice.
Veneer.
Cleft.
Bark.
Herbaceous.
Seed.
Double.
Cutting.
2. By undetached scions.—Inarching.