CHE REFERENCE LIBRARY - Pole Shift Survival Information

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cuttings. Make cuttings of mature wood in autumn, cutting just
below a bud. Scarce varieties may he multiplied by single-eye cuttillgS.
Fig cuttirqs arf’ handled in the same way as grape cuttings.
Some prefer, howevtbr, to place the cuttings where the tree is to
stand. ,4 well-grown plant will bear at two or three years of a,ge.
Fig. 112.
The fig is readily ljudded and grafted, hut. these mr.;thods are
seldom used, because the plant is so easily multiplied by cuttings.
Shield, ring or tubular buddings are employed. Various methods
of grafting are adapted to it, and cleft-grafting is usually employed
on old plants.
In California,, the best fig cuttings are made from short-jointed
well-ripened wood about 9 inches long, with the terminal bud undisturbed.
These should be planted in sandy loam, with top of
cutting just above the surface, and kept well irrigated until sufficient
growth is made, usually 3 or 4 feet the first year. They grow
to best. advanntage in the warmer interior valleys.
Filipendula (YkEcaduw-Sweet). &warm.
Propagated by seeds sown in fall in pans or bosev and kept in a
cool grecnhousc, or in spring in a frame ; also hy division of older
plants.
Fittonia. *-1w~lfllm~rw.
The fittonias groin readily from cuttings of any part. of the stem ;
cuttings from the tips of shoots, cut to one joint, are usually
emplo>~etl. Propagate every year to get compact plants. Also
increased by division.
Feeniculum : f’:en ml.
Fontanesia. Okzccn.
Layers and seed are used for propagation ; also by greenwood
cuttings in early summer under glass ; or it may be grafted on
the privet, although this is little necessary as cuttings root so
readily.
Forsythia (Golden-Bell). Olr~~oe.
Grown extensively from green cuttings in summer, in a frame ;
also grown Prom ripe cuttings taken in fall and winter, and planted
in the open air in early spring. I\1so raised from seeds. The
shoots of the drooping kinds take root freely at the tips.