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Introduction 6 How to Use This Book 8 Tools and Techniques 10 The Propagator's Tool Kit 12 Hand tools 13 Equipment and supplies 14 Soil mixes 16 Propagation equipment 18 Starting from Seed 20 Seed characteristics 21 Flowers and seeds 22 Starting seeds 24 Leaching 26 Soaking 28 Scarification 30 Stratification 32 Light 34 Dark 35 Relative humidity 36 Temperatures 38 Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels 39 Life cycles and growth characteristics 40 Saving seeds 42 Pollination 44 Harvesting and cleaning 46 Storing saved seeds 48 Treating seeds to prevent disease 50 Working with hybrids 52 Dividing Established Plants 54 Good digging 55 Dividing plants with fibrous root systems 56 Dividing plants with fleshy or woody crowns 58 Dividing suckers 60 Dividing plants with rhizomes 62 Dividing plants with tubers 64 Dividing plants with offsets 66 Dividing plants with bulbs and corms 68 Scoring, scooping, coring, and sectioning bulbs 70 Scaling lily bulbs 72 Cuttings 74 Types of cuttings 75 Greenwood cuttings 76 Softwood cuttings 78 Semi-ripe cuttings 80 Hardwood cuttings 82 Conifer cuttings 84 Cane cuttings 86 Leaf petiole cuttings 88 Leaf vein cuttings 90 Upright leaf cuttings 92 Monocot leaf cuttings 94 Root cuttings 96 Layering 98 Tip layering 100 Simple and serpentine layering 102 Air layering 104 Stooling or mound layering 106 French layering 108 Dropping 110 Grafting 112 Grafting with rootstocks 114 Whip-and-tongue grafting 116 Apical-wedge grafting and saddle grafting 118 Side-wedge grafting 121 Approach grafting 122 Four-flap graft 124 Side-veneer grafting 126 T-budding 128 Chip budding 130 Grafting a cactus 132 Plant Directory 134 Glossary 180 Resources 182 Zone Map 183 Plant List 184 Index 189 Acknowledgments 192
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Plant propagation.