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Title: Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927
Subjects: Botany Gardening Forests and forestry
Publisher: New York : The Garden and forest publishing co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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r, so that cuttingshave been taken as needed. It is only during recent years thatwe have come to pay due attention to our stock during what the season before for specimen blooms. I have tried this plan,but with indifferent success. Young plants taken as cuttings,when old plants were started, outgrew them in four months,which is only about half a seasons growth. I am told thatone gardener, following the English practice, grew some plantsall last season for the sole purpose of making specimens ofthem this. It is to be hoped that these plants will be exhibited,so that we can have an opportunity of judging between theEnglish and American methods. Experience shows that cuttings root better during the monthof March than at any other time. Later, as the sun gainspower, the air grows drier and closer attention must be givento the work of propagation. Indeed, I am acquainted withgood gardeners who have been unable to understand whythey lost a large percentage of cuttings during the late spring
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Viburnum erosum.—See page 84. may be termed the resting season. It has been too much thecustom to shove the plants under benches and pay little or noattention to them until they were needed. We were certainin this way of some sort of cuttings, but experience has provedthat it is advantageous to have our stock hardy, healthy andexposed to air and sunshine on every available opportunity.Some growers now even take the trouble to grow plants in theopen garden exclusively for stock. As stated in previous notes, our plants intended for speci-mens were started a month earlier than usual, and we havelately moved them into six-inch pots. Ordinarily we shouldnow have them in four-inch pots. In this stage they would beearly enough for all practical purposes and would make quitelarge specimens. Some English growers start plants in De-cember and grow on old plants which have been cultivated months. During the months of May and June a close, well-shaded propagating frame is essential, and complet

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