The Garden Under Glass
Forfatter: William F. Rowles
År: 1914
Forlag: Grant Richards Ltd. Publishers
Sted: London
Sider: 368
UDK: 631.911.9
With Numerous Practical Diagrams From Drawings By G. D. Rowles And Thirty-Two Illustrations From Photographs
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PROPAGATION UNDER GLASS 213
bottom to our frame and over it we will put a couple of inches of half-decayed leaf-soil. The soil will now be got at hånd, pegs prepared and a mat put in readiness to shade the layers from sunshine. Meanwhile we will prepare the plants by cutting out the flower stem, removing weak
Diagram 44.—Propagation by Layering : 1. Plant prepared for layering. 2. How to make the cut and a peg for keeping the layer in place. 3. A rooted layer severed from the old plant. 4. How the plants and layers are set in a frame.
grass and stripping from the rest of the plant all the leaves to within four or five inches of the point of each growth. The growths being loosely looped together to prevent them from slivering off at the base, we knock the plant from the pot, remove the crocks and lay the ball sideways in the frame.
The next move is to put some soil beneath the growths and press it firmly with the hånd. We then arrange