Gossard(9) reported success in producing roots from the tops of small grafted and budded pecan trees by trench layering and from older trees by aerial layering with marcot boxes.
Propagation by Layering No records are available in regard to any hickory species or variety other than pecan having been propagated by any method of either soil or air layering.
Personally, I find that the hazel is rather easily budded, although layering is the method for propagation of choice varieties most often employed in Europe.
In our fall layering we naturally get a larger plant.
Layering is frequently resorted to as a mode of propagation, it is very simple, easily performed, and, with some species, very certain in its results.
A very common opinion prevails that layering exhausts the mother plant, or vine, which is used in this mode of propagating.
The work of layering mature wood usually begins in the spring, but the vines from which the layers are to be taken should have received preliminary treatment the preceding season.
The drawback is that fewer plants can be obtained by layering than from cuttings with a given amount of wood.
The essentials of layering have been given, but a number of non-essentials may be helpful under some conditions.
Strong plants are seldom obtained from summer-layering and it is never safe to attempt to grow more than one or two plants from a shoot.
A plant introduced by layering a strong cane from a near-by vine has little difficulty in establishing itself on its own roots, after which it can be separated from the parent.
Varieties of some species, however, cannot be propagated by cuttings, and with these layering becomes of supreme importance to the propagator.
The vines to be layered are severely cut back a year or more before the layering is to be done to induce a vigorous growth of canes.
Beyond this there is nothing special about its culture; moreover, it is easily increased, either by cuttings taken in summer and pricked into moist peat under a bell glass, or by layering the branches.
The layering may be done any time, but if in spring or summer, rooted plants will be ready for the following season.
It is a slow-growing subject, but easily propagated by layering the lower branches; no matter how old or hard the wood has grown, if pegged well down they will soon become rooted.
When it is necessary to get new plants during June, July or August, a method called "layering in the air" will have to be resorted to if you would be certain of results.
Moss Roses are generally multiplied by layering (see "Layering"), and by budding on the common Manetti or Multiflora stocks.
All layering should be done while the wood is young; just ripe enough to bend without snapping off, and all hardy vines and shrubs are in condition to layer from the first to the middle of June.
Layering is a simple method by which plants may be multiplied.
Pots may be plunged in the ground so that the limbs will not require to be bent much in layering them.
The plants should be well watered a day or two before layering is commenced, and immediately afterward--then only occasionally.
Layering in the manner already specified, is the best method of increase.
Another method of layeringis to cut the parent off down to the ground.
Layering consists in preparing the branch of a plant while still attached to the parent, bending it so that the part operated on is brought under ground, and then fixing it there by means of a forked peg.
Increase roses and American shrubs, by layering, budding or cuttings, and go on with the layeringof carnations and picotees.
The fruit having now been gathered from strawberry plants, if new beds are to be formed, the system of layering the plants in small pots is the best.
Tip or simple layering seems to be the most satisfactory method of propagating the hazelnut and filbert.
The method of propagation of the Hazilbert is by layers instead of grafting--layering is a cheaper and more satisfactory method.
A plant which is cut back in the spring will produce shoots fit for layering the following spring; or some species will produce them in abundance the same year if layers of green or immature wood are desired.
Layering in pots is employed only in special cases.
Mound-layering (see page 35) is practiced where extra strong plants are required.
This layering by inserting the growing point has the advantage of producing very strong "crowns" or plants in autumn from shoots or canes of the same year, and it should be more generally practised.
Stools kept for layering must be allowed to make more growth than those used for suckers.
Pot layering is employed not only for the purpose of multiplying plants, but in order to lower the heads of "leggy" or scraggly specimens.
Green-layering is sometimes practiced with rare sorts, or single eyes may be used, as in grapes.
Layering in spring, enclosing the part buried with moss, is also practiced; but the layer must be left two years before separating.
Propagated by seeds sown when ripe in a cool house, or layering in autumn.
Propagated by seeds and suckers, also by layering the hardy species in autumn.
Common green layering is sometimes practiced the first year, but it is not in favor.
In some varieties which do not strike readily from cuttings, layering is considerably practiced by nurserymen.
Sometimes, when stocks are rare, mound-layering is performed during the first summer, before the young shoots have hardened, but good stocks are not obtained by this method.
Layering is one of the simplest methods of propagation, as the mother plants nurse the layer plants until they can sustain themselves.
Pot layering is practiced almost exclusively in greenhouses, where it is possible to keep the earth uniformly moist.
The pot-layering is repeated each year, and the old plants thrown out, no attempt being made to get a second crop.
The pot-layering system, especially for a small number of plants, I consider the best.
Experimentally, I have been able to produce new plants from this tree by layering young shoots coming from the roots.
One year this tree began to fail and I tried to save it or propagate it by layering and sprouting seeds.
JONES: I would like to ask Mr. Vollertsen if he has tried layering the two years growth and rooting the one year branches thereon instead of layering the one year growth.
This can well be done by sowing the seed or nuts or by layering of European varieties, we are in possession of.
I have among my imported varieties several of which the fruit or nuts are too small and not at all satisfactory for commercial purposes, those varieties I am layering with that point in view to use them for stock to graft upon only.
The layering of hazel-plants in my nursery is done from imported stock or parent-plants planted on ordinary farm land thoroughly worked and well manured 12 feet apart each way.
The one year shoots would no doubt make larger plants at one year but you get a larger number of plants by layering the two years growth and rooting the branches.
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