The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-10-25

Mr.. J Jenkins in an address be-
fore the Nurserymen's Association,
said:
Most varieties of Grape-vines, Cur
rants, Gooseberries. Roses, and much
of the shrubbery supplied by nur-
serymen, grow readily, and are
grown from outdoor cuttings.
Whether of trees or vines, indoor or
out door propagation. the operation
of nature in the growth of the cut
ting is tie same. The bud holds
within its brown envelop the princi-
pie of life, which extends through
the cells that have carried this cir
culation, extended the growth and
established the bud After the cut
ting is divided, natures firstac is to
form callus with the decending
cells that would have gone to extend
and enlarge the roots on the mother
vines.
Now instead of abruptly dividing
the cane or shoot to be used as a
cutting, a system of ringing or
strangulation be followed, every bud
may be made to produce a plant,
with scarcely an exception. This
strangulation or ringing is performed
on soft or green wood by simply
tying thread tightly around the
point where the slip or cutting is to
be separated, and on hard wood by
a ring of copper or other wire drawn
closely. This will cause an enlarge
ment and a deposition of cambiun4
at the point of arrest and make the
growth of the cuttings thus prepared,
when finally separated and planted,
almost as certain as though they
already had roots.
One very successful experiment
with outdoor cuttings of the Grape
was performed by allowing the canes
to remain on the mother vines until
the buds had started a growth of
one half inch or more and the leaves
had begun to unfold every eye was
separated, the old wood placed en-
tirely below the soil, the new growth
Just appearing above the ground,
shaded carefully, with result of
fully eighty per cent. of vine.
In the usual manner of preparing
cuttings, greater success follows when
the cuttings are taken off immediate
" on the fall of the leaf before freez
ing, when they should immediatel,
be packed away in moss or soil un-
til time for planting in spriLg.
Cuttings of Currants and Goose
berries taken in August and Septem-
Der may be Immediately planted,
covered with heavy mulch of straw
to carry them through the winter
Grape cuttings for out door plant
ing may be made with single eyes,
but all the advantages of a two bulb
cutting may be retained by simply
cutting across the node with sharp
knife or with shears, commencing
the cut opposite and one eighth of
en- inch or more below the bud and
finishing one-eighth of an inch or
more above. We find a new and
very profitable use for vines thus
grown in propagation Delaware, Gym
thiana, Norton's Virginia, and other
hard wooded vines by grating.
Roots were thrown out from these
long single eye-buds through the cut
surface below while another tier of
roots starts Immediately below the
bud. Above this upper tier of roots
the line is separated and planted on
good ground, where it will make a
strong two year old the following
season. The lower tier of roots with
the piece of stump of the cutting is
used as a stock and grated with any
of the varieties difficult to PROPAGATE.
There is no fear of mixture or mis-
take from the growth of the stock,
as it contains no buds, and as no
sprouts start from the stock it the
more readily and certainly united
with the scion.