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Show Propagating Plants by Layering i' Two Common Forms of Layering. i . Certain plants may be propagated or multiplied by covering pnrt of the plant with soil. This process is known as layerage, and Is a very simple way to propagate many common bush fruit plants and shrubs. Gooseberries, currants, raspberries, grapes, rambler roses, lilacs,' Japanese barberry and privet Ledge are a few of the common plants easily propagated propa-gated in this manner. r There are two general types of layerage lay-erage as shown in the illustration, says the Prairie Farmer. The first is known as Up layering and Is the type used .with raspberries, grapes ' and rambler roses. All that, is necessary Is to cover the tip of one or "several branches of the ' growing - plant with moist soil. That part of the, branch which 'is covered , with soil will .take root,': and when-rooted it can be severed se-vered from the . parent plant- and transplanted as a new plant. 'All work of layering should be done In jthe spring nfter growth starts, and the secret of success lies in keeping the soil moist over the covered part" If it dries out, the burled tip will not root. Plants. which are layered this spring will ' be ready to transplant next fall or in the spring of 1930. Be sure the tip Is thoroughly rooted before severing It from the parent plant It will be well to wait until fall to sever new plants which grow from layers made the spring before. The other typejs known as mound layering, and consists merely of throwing, or mounding up, soil about the base of a growing plant In this case, too, it is necessary to keep the mounded-up soli from drying out This type Is most successful on goosebet-rles, goosebet-rles, currants, lilacs, Japanese barberry barber-ry and privet The-mounding Is:done In' spring or-early or-early summer, and v ty "(all .thosle branches which were "covered with soil :-wlli have rooted.' In the fall or next" spring the soli can Je removed carefully care-fully and the plant dug and divided into as many new plants as there are branches or stem which, bear roots. On' black 'rdspberry.iushes some of the tips have touche'd the ground and taken root without having been bur-' bur-' led.' . Thli 'Js a; natural' example of tip layering, ' ihin oflt now and see if you cannot find some natural tip layers lay-ers among your - black raspberry bushes. |