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Genre/Form: | Internet resource Horticulture |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Smith, Miranda, 1944- Plant propagator's bible. Emmaus, PA : Rodale, ©2007 (OCoLC)776270787 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Miranda Smith |
ISBN: | 9781594864483 1594864489 |
OCLC Number: | 76261734 |
Notes: | "A Quarto book"--Title page verso. Includes index. |
Description: | 192 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- How to use this book -- Tools and techniques -- Propagator's Tool Kit -- Hand tools -- Equipment and supplies -- Soil mixes -- Propagation equipment -- Starting From Seed -- Seed characteristics -- Flowers and seeds -- Starting seeds -- Leaching -- Soaking -- Scarification -- Stratification -- Light -- Dark -- Relative humidity -- Temperatures -- Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels -- Life cycles and growth characteristics -- Saving seeds -- Pollination -- Harvesting and cleaning -- Storing saved seeds -- Treating seeds to prevent disease -- Working with hybrids -- Dividing Established Plants -- Good digging -- Dividing plants with fibrous root systems -- Dividing plants with fleshy or woody crowns -- Dividing suckers -- Dividing plants with rhizomes -- Dividing plants with tubers -- Dividing plants with offsets -- Dividing plants with bulbs and corms -- Scoring, sectioning, scooping, and coring bulbs -- Scaling lily bulbs -- Cuttings -- Types of cuttings -- Greenwood cuttings -- Softwood cuttings -- Semiripe cuttings -- Hardwood cuttings -- Conifer cuttings -- Cane cuttings -- Leaf petiole cuttings -- Leaf vein cuttings -- Upright leaf cuttings -- Monocot leaf cuttings -- Root cuttings -- Layering -- Tip layering -- Simple and serpentine layering -- Air layering -- Stooling or mound layering -- French layering -- Dropping -- Grafting -- Grafting with rootstocks -- Whip-and-tongue grafting -- Apical-wedge grafting and saddle grafting -- Side-wedge grafting -- Approach grafting -- Four-flap grafting -- Side-veneer grafting -- T-budding -- Chip budding -- Grafting a cactus -- Plant directory -- Glossary -- Hardiness zones -- Plant list -- Index -- Credits. |
Responsibility: | Miranda Smith. |
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Abstract:
Creating new plants from existing ones is one of the most rewarding aspects of gardening. This work explains the natural process and conditions in which plants grow and reproduce, and shows gardeners how to use these systems to propagate any plant that grows in their garden or greenhouse - or even on their windowsill.
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