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" I -j inch or two inches in length, and is the point of a shoot formed during the bygone summer. Its base is cut in the form of a wedge, and inserted in the crown of the finger-like tuber just noticed. "
Paxton's Flower garden, by J. Lindley and J. Paxton - Page 160
by John Lindley - 1851
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The American Flower Garden Companion

Edward Sayers - Floriculture - 1846 - 226 pages
...cutting off the top of the stock and splitting it down the centre, so as to admit the graft, which is cut in the form of a wedge, and inserted in the same manner as represented by fig. 7. When inserted, it must be bandaged, and -treated in the same...
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The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, Volume 6

Country life - 1851 - 618 pages
...brought from the plants which it is desirable to increase. Each scion used is not more than one and half or two inches in length, and is the point of...operation is completed. When a large number of plants have been prepared in this manner, they are taken to the nursery, where they are planted in rows about...
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The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries ..., Volume 17

Fruit-culture - 1851 - 696 pages
...brought from the plants which it is desirable to increase. Each scion used is not more than I -j inch or two inches in length, and is the point of a shoot...operation is completed. When a large number of plants have been prepared in this manner they are taken to the nursery, where they are planted in rows about...
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Floricultural Cabinet and Florists' Magazine. ..., Volumes 19-20

Horticulture - 1851 - 754 pages
...from the plants which it is desirous to increase. Each scion used is not more than an inch and a-half or two inches in length, and is the point of a shoot...the usual way, and the operation is completed. When n large number of plants has been prepared in this manner they are taken to the nursery, where they...
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A Journey to the Tea Countries of China: Including Sung-Lo and the Bohea ...

Robert Fortune - China - 1852 - 456 pages
...brought from the plants which it is desirable to increase. Each scion used is not more than 1 i inch or 2 inches in length, and is the point of a shoot formed...and inserted in the crown of the finger-like tuber. This is tied up or clayed round in the usual way, and the operation is completed. When a large number...
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The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries ..., Volume 23

Fruit-culture - 1857 - 688 pages
...brought from the plants which it is desirable to increase. Each scion used is not more than li inch or 2 inches in length, and is the point of a shoot formed...and inserted in the crown of the finger-like tuber. This is tied up or clayed round in the usual way, and the operation is completed. When a large number...
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Paxton's Flower Garden, Volume 1

John Lindley, Sir Joseph Paxton - Botany - 1882 - 358 pages
...number of these rootlets upon the potting-bench, the scions are then brought from the plants which it is desirable to increase. Each scion used is not...operation is completed. When a large number of plants have been prepared in this manner they are taken to the nursery, where they are planted in rows about...
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The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits ...

Floriculture - 1882 - 294 pages
...and consist of the points of the shoots formed during the preceding summer. The base of each scion is cut in the form of a wedge, and inserted in the crown of the fingerlike tuber, which is then tied up and clayed round in the usual way, and the operation is complete. When a large...
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Annual Report, Volume 2

New York (State) Dept. of Agriculture - 1910 - 1312 pages
...then brought from the plant which it is desired to increase. Each scion used is no more than il/2 to 2 inches in length, and is the point of a shoot formed...and inserted in the crown of the finger-like tuber. This is then tied up and clayed around in the usual way, and the operation is then complete. When a...
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Annual Report, Volume 22

Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station - Natural history - 1910 - 1312 pages
...then brought from the plant which it is desired to increase. Each scion used is no more than il/2 to 2 inches in length, and is the point of a shoot formed...and inserted in the crown of the finger-like tuber. This is then tied up and clayed around in the usual way, and the operation is then complete. When a...
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