Abstract
THE Imperial Bureau of Horticulture and Plantation Crops, East Malling, has issued Technical Communication 13 on this subject by G. St. Clair Fielden and R. J. Garner. It deals with the vegetative propagation of some fifty-five plantation crops, and follows a previous communication (issued in 1936) dealing with the vegetative propagation of some one hundred fruit varieties grown in the tropics and sub-tropics. The help of technical experts has been invoked for adequate treatment of such major crops as rubber, coffee, cacao, etc., while the foreign literature has been thoroughly combed for details of propagation of the less familiar, but nevertheless important, crops. One feature of the previous work, which commended it also to workers in temperate regions, is retained and considerably enlarged, namely, the section devoted to methods used in vegetative propagation. The descriptions are supported by simple, clear, line drawings of some seventeen types of graft and seven types of budding commonly used in vegetative propagation. Tropical workers will also be glad of the illustrated detail of the construction of loosely woven potting baskets which have been found so useful a substitute for pots in nursery work in the tropics. For those who wish to study originals, a list of references immediately follows the discussion on the propagation of each particular crop.
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Vegetative Propagation in Tropical Plantations. Nature 146, 91 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146091a0
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