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Title: Plant culture; a working handbook of every day practice for all who grow flowering and ornamental plants in the garden and greenhouse
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Oliver, George Watson, 1858-1923 Hottes, Alfred Carl, 1891- joint author
Subjects: Gardening Greenhouses
Publisher: New York, A. T. De La Mare co., inc.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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up many shoots from underground stems. Propagation. Propagation is accomplished by cutting up andsprouting the roots. The plant seems to delight in rather dry soil.In dry weather, when other shrubs suffer for want of water, thisone is always fresh and green; but probably this is caused by theroots going deep into the soil. To increase C. fcetidum in quantitythe roots and underground stems should be dug up, cut in smallpieces, and started indoors early in Spring. CORNUS (Dogwood). In the Southern States, C.florida, theFlowering Dogwood, grows sometimes 30 to 40 feet high; fartherNorth it is a shrub 10 to 15 feet high. The flowers are small, green-ish yellow; the bracts are very large and pure white. It blooms inearly Spring before the leaves are developed. In Autumn a wellfruited bush, with its red foliage, is a most beautiful object. C. /.rubra is a rosy pink flowered variety of recent introduction, wellworthy of cultivation; both it and the type should be planted in 304 PLANT CULTURE
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HARDY SHRUBS . 305 well-drained situations. C. Kousa, a Japanese species, resemblingC. florida, is superior in prolificacy of bloom. C. sanguinea has darkred branches—a very effective plant among other shrubs. C.racemosa (candidissima), C. mas and C alha are commonly grown,the first for its flowers, the second principally for its fruits, whilethe last has striking red twigs through the Winter. C. alternifoliais a handsome, small tree with the branches in tiers, more or lessregular. Propagation. Seeds germinate the second year. The sortssuch as C. alha propagate by hardwood cuttings. The varieties ofC. florida are budded or grafted upon seedHngs of the type. COTONEASTER. A dense, low growing, evergreen shrub.Cotoneaster microphylla has small leaves and bright red fruits thatremain on the plants the best part of Winter. C. Simonsii is almostevergreen and perfectly hardy south of New York; its bright redfruits are the main feature of the plant. Propagation. They are propagated best by

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