Identifier: seedlinginarchnu202oliv (find matches)
Title: The seedling-inarch and nurse-plant methods of propagation
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Oliver, George W. (George Watson) United States. Department of Agriculture United States. Bureau of Plant Industry United States. Government Printing Office
Subjects: Plant propagation
Publisher: Washington, Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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and again been planted in veryunfriendly soils and under adverse climatic conditions. There isnow little doubt that as a result of the successful experiments in itspropagation in the greenhouses of the Department of Agriculture itwill be possible to obtain healthy growth, especially where the mango-steen seedlings have been inarched on other species of Garcinia andalso on other genera of the order to which the mangosteen belongs. 202 24 SEEDLING-INARCH AND NURSE-PLANT PROPAGATION. In the propagation of the mangosteen the method so successfullyused with the mango, already described, is reversed. With themango the seedling is used as the stock, but with the mangosteen theseedling is used as the scion. This would not be necessary if theshoots of the mangosteen tree were as easy to inarch as are theshoots of the mango. Two instances are recorded of attempts topropagate the mangosteen by inarching on other species of Gar-cinia.a In each instance the attempt at inarching seems to have been
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Fig. 11.—Fruiting branch of the mangosteen. (From a painting by Miss D. G. Passmore.) carried no further than to determine that a partial union took placebetween the stock and the scion. By a method similar to thatused by Woodrow and Harris the writer was at first also unsuccessful.The inarched trees recently planted in the Panama Canal Zone bythe Bureau of Plant Industry have turned out well, and it is hopedthat not only the proper method of propagation has been discovered,but also that a suitable place has been found where the mangosteenmay be grown on a large scale and the fruit be more commonly seenin this country. a See Woodrow, G. M., Gardening in India, 1888, p. 155, and Harris, W., Bulletinof the Botanical Department, Jamaica, no. 9, November, 1888, p. 3.202 PROPAGATING THE MANGOSTEEN. 25 DIFFICULTY IN GROWING THE MANGOSTEEN FROM SEEDS. The cause of the difficulty in rearing young seedlings of the man-gosteen has not been fully determined. Several experiments car-ried out fr

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