Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year .. (1849)
United States. Patent Office · Washington : Office of Printers to House of Reps. · leaf 366
IE., PARIS, FRANCE. We beg leave to explain a new mode of setting the cuttings of the fig, which may possibly prove interesting to those who wish to propa- gate this shrub. The ground being well prepared, we make a narrow trench from an inch to an inch and a half deep, and then drive into the… … be bent upwards again and stand out of the ground. We then make around the top of the cutting a small excavation which we fill up with straw, in order to keep the soil in a good condition of moisture. Planted in this way, the cuttings will strike root promptly and vegetate thriftily. To illustrate…
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