PROPAGATING THE QUINCE BY CUTTINGS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 277, 30 June 1888, Page 6

PROPAGATING THE QUINCE BY CUTTINGS.

TiiHUK is no more useful or wholesome iruit than the quince, and it is of all fruits perhaps the surest cropper if fairly treated Quinco cuttings strike almost as easily as willows. A recognised horticultural authority pays that propagation by cuttingo is probably the best method of multiplying! quince trees. Cuttings of large branche^ arc botter than those of small shoots. Tho amount of wood seems to measuro the vital forco to form both roots and tops. From twelve lo fifteen inches is a good length, enabling u» to plant deeply, and so guard against drought. JStnall cuttings may be cut shorter, and have a piece of apple or quinco root grafted on to, push them. The chief thing ih to guard against tho exhaustion of sap by evaporation uutil roots arc formed. Facilities for regulating light, heat, air, and moisture with precision will onable us, to succeed viitha succulcntouttingfurnished v ithafew leaves! When the air is warmor than the earth, buds arc excited more 'than roots : and when the ground is warmest, root growth is mo^t excited. 1 fence the custom of burying cuttings inverted during the winter, to keep the buds dormant while a callus is foimiug for the emission of roots. ,