MTU Library Catalogue

Practical woody plant propagation for nursery growers / Bruce Macdonald.

By: Macdonald, Bruce (A. Bruce) [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 1986 (2002 printing)Description: vol. 1 (669 p.) : ill. ; 29 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0881920622 (v. 1).Subject(s): Ornamental woody plants -- Propagation | Woody plants -- Propagation | Nurseries (Horticulture)DDC classification: 582.15
Contents:
Propagation from seed; principles and open-ground production -- Propagation from seed - greenhouse production -- Protected propaation facilities -- Tools and materials for the propagator -- Unit containers -- Principles of vegetative propagation, clonal selection and stock (mother) plant -- Factors affecting the rooting of cuttings -- Softwood, semi-ripe wood and evergreen hardwood cuttings -- Deciduous (leafless) hardwood cuttings -- Rooting hormones -- Rooting media (rooting composts) -- Disease prevention and control for cuttings -- Direct sticking -- Root cuttings and division -- Layering -- Principlkes of grafting -- Open-ground budding -- Open-ground grafting -- ench grafting and top-working -- Micropropagation.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Propagation from seed; principles and open-ground production -- Propagation from seed - greenhouse production -- Protected propaation facilities -- Tools and materials for the propagator -- Unit containers -- Principles of vegetative propagation, clonal selection and stock (mother) plant -- Factors affecting the rooting of cuttings -- Softwood, semi-ripe wood and evergreen hardwood cuttings -- Deciduous (leafless) hardwood cuttings -- Rooting hormones -- Rooting media (rooting composts) -- Disease prevention and control for cuttings -- Direct sticking -- Root cuttings and division -- Layering -- Principlkes of grafting -- Open-ground budding -- Open-ground grafting -- ench grafting and top-working -- Micropropagation.

CIT Module AGRI 6019 - Core reading