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Air Layering
Making air layers on woody plants toinduce rooting is a practice that is centuries old.Generations of Chinese did it, and undoubtedlyit was introduced into America by the earliersettlers. Until comparatively recently themethod has been used chiefly in the greenhouse.It consisted of scarifying the stem of a plantand wrapping moist moss ...Continue reading...
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Garden Center
Garden Center There are a types ofgarden centers in America. The term is used bysome commercial nurserymen, seedsmen andflorists to denote a store or center where every-thing for the garden is placed on display forsale—seeds, plants, tools, machines and all themany types of things used by gardeners inmaking and caring for ...Continue reading...
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Grafting
This is a method of plant propaga-tion in which a twig of one plant, called thescion, is made to grow on the roots of anotherplant, called the stock or the understock. Thescion is taken from the plant which is to bereproduced, and because this is an asexual meansof reproduction, the ...Continue reading...
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