Plant Propagation : principles and practices / Hudson T. Hartmann Professor of Pomology University of California at Davis, Dale E. Kester Associate Professor of Pomology University of California at Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hartmann, Hudson T. (Hudson Thomas), 1914-1994.

Kester, Dale E., author.

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plant propagation.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (donor)

Corbett, James T. (previous owner)

Physical Description:

ix, [1], 559, [7] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Fourth Printing

Place of Publication:

Englewood-Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1961]

Contents:

I. General Aspects of Propagation. 1. Introduction; 2. Propagating Structures, Media, Soil Mixtures, and Containers

II. Sexual Propagation. 3. The Development of Fruits and Seeds; 4. Principles of Seed Selection; 5. Techniques of Seed Production and Handling; 6. Principles of Seed Propagation; 7. Techniques of Seed Propagation

III. Asexual Propagation. 8. General Aspects of Asexual Propagation; 9. Anatomical and Physiological Basis of Propagation by Cuttings; 10. Techniques of Propagation by Cuttings; 11. Theoretical Aspects of Grafting and Budding; 12. Techniques of Grafting; 13. Techniques of Budding; 14. Layering; 15. Propagation by Specialized Stems and Roots

IV. Propagation of Selected Plants. 16. Propagation Methods and Rootstocks for the Important Fruit and Nut Species; 17. Propagation of Certain Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines; 18. Propagation of Selected Annuals and Herbaceous Perennials Used as Ornamentals.

Notes:

"Fourth printing ... September, 1961."

Includes index.

Bibliographical references at end of each chapter.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has signature of James T. Corbett February 1964 with underlines, ms. annotations and marginal marks.

OCLC:

154652624