CHAP. 13.—PROPAGATION BY SLIPS AND CUTTINGS.
Nature has also discovered another method, which is very
similar to the last—for slips torn away from the tree will live.
In adopting this plan, care should be taken to pull out the
haunch [Note] of the slip where it adheres to the stock, and so remove with it a portion of the fibrous body of the parent tree.
It is in this way that the pomegranate, the hazel, the apple,
the sorb, the medlar, the ash, the fig, and more particularly
the vine, are propagated. The quince, however, if planted in
this way will degenerate, [Note] and it has been consequently found
a better plan to cut slips and plant them: a method which
was at first adopted for making hedges, with the elder, the
quince, and the bramble, but came afterwards to be applied to
cultivated trees, such as the poplar, the alder, and the willow,
which last will grow if even the slip is planted upside down. [Note]
In the case of cuttings, they are planted at once in the spot
which it is intended they should occupy: but before we pass
on to the other methods of propagation, it seems as well to
mention the care that should be expended upon making seedplots. [Note]
