CHE REFERENCE LIBRARY - Pole Shift Survival Information

in moss, said or sawdust in a cellar until spring. (See page 87.)
There is IIO general rult~ to govern the length of hardwood
mtt ings. Most propagators
jmfer t.0 iua,kcb them (i to 10
iiic~hes long, as this is a coinvenient
length to handle,
hilt the shorter length is prefcrablc.
Two buds are always
to be taken, oue bud
or one pair at the top mcl
one at the bottom, hut in
“ short-jointed ” plaints umre
~~ucls are retained. Scmlet
in33 :t!l but the top buds
arc’ reinc:Ved to preyent the
starting of shoots or sprouts
underground. (Grape cuttings
are now cotnnionl~~ cut to
two !x three buds (as in Fig. ,
!KS), two being the fal-mite
number for most mrietics.
Currant anal gooseherr~~ c*ut- E’I (;. 112.
tings (Fig. 111) usuall~~ hear
.I well-rootcrt cutkg of fig.
six to ttm buds. All lmg l~arrlwootl cutt.iligs are set perpendicularly,
or nearly SO, and only oue or two buds are allowed
to stand above the surface. A hardwood cutting of fig,
after it. ha5 made roots and a terminal shoot, is shown in
Fig. II:! (Reiiuer, N. C Bull. 208).
When the stock is rare,
cuttiiqs are made of single
FIG. 113. Single-eye grape cutting (x 1).
eyes or buds. This is par-
*
titularly the case with the
grape, and c~rirraiit~ md inmy other plants arc occasionally
grown in the saimt way. Fig. 113 shows a single-eye grape