Excerpt from Practical Plant Propagation: An Exposition of the Art, and Science of Increasing, Plants as Practiced By, the Nurseryman, Florist and Gardener The author acknowledges credit to all who, through their wide experience, have written Of plant propagation, and especially to Joseph Meehan* and George W. Oliver, * both pre-eminent in their fields of nursery and greenhouse propagation. Credit is due Dr. L. H. Bailey for crystallizing the scattered information and publishing it in the Nursery Book of 1891. The author welcomes suggestions and advice relating to the subject matter of this book to the end that when a new edition becomes necessary it may have increased value. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.