CHE REFERENCE LIBRARY - Pole Shift Survival Information

Gillenia. Rosnceca.
Propagated readily by dividing
t.he roots ; also by seeds.
Ginkgo, Salislluria (Maidenhair Tree). ChkgoawcP.
Yropaga ted by seeds, which are mostly imported, and which
should be stratified. Seeds are now produced in some quantity in
this country-. ,Ilso increased by layers, and by cuttings of either
green or ripe wood. The cuttings are hundl~d under glass. Named
varieties are grafted on common stocks.
Ginseng ( Prr.t~~.~ (31 .A din ‘It~itt,QtL’lfoljt.~,ttt j. iI raliaceix.
Propagated by seeds, which germinate the second spring. As
soon as ripe, in autumn, the seed should be gathered and kept
moist for twc1L.e months, being planted regularly in beds a year
from the time of gathering. The seed may be kept moist and fit*
1)~ plantin g it as soon as ripe, but this exposes it to mice and other
risks ; a safer way is to mix the seeds in several times their bulk of
sand (stra,tify) and keep them in a bos, covered with wire netting,
until planted. The seed ma>’ be sifted from the sand. The seed
is sown either in drills or broadcast in well-prepared narrow beds
(to admit of cultivation from either side), the seeds being an inch
or two apart. Seedlings should be transplanted the first or second
sea.son. ~‘ommerciw.1 mature roots may he expected in five years.
Gladiolus. Iridrr~~r.
Propaga tetl by- see(Is, which art: c~~n~n~onl~~ sown in pans in spring,
in the house ; or the?- may be sown in the border. Seedlings flower
in two or three ?-ears, but. foyer years is often required to produce
good merchantable bottoms. Theme give new varieties. The
common method of propagation is by means of cormels or offsets.
These are removed from the parent corm and planted in the open,
where some of them will flower the same season, although most of
them will require a season’s independent growth before they bloom.
If cormels are desired in abundance, the large corms should not
be allowed to flower. Some varieties do not produce cormels
readily, and these may be made to bear them by cutting or ringing.
Aside from cormels, one or two new corms are formed above the
old one each year. Fig. 49.
Glaucium (Horned Poppy). Papaverace~.
The annual and biennial kinds are grown from seeds sown
where the plants are to stand ; perennials by division.