VEGETATIVE PLANT PROPAGATION

Duration: 30 min

Year Published: 1941

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc

Format: 16mm

Description: Demonstrates the techniques used in various types of vegetative plant propagation, and based throughout on scientific findings. Reel 1 demonstrates correct procedures in making stem green and woody stem cuttings; leaf cuttings; fleshy and fibrous root cuttings. Reel 2 demonstrates the storage of the mound, and aerial layering; separation and division of garden plants such as peonies, dahlias, cannas, narcissus and tulip bulbs, gladiolus corms; top grafting of apple trees, side grafting of evergreens; grafting of apple roots; bud grafting of roses.

Complete Record: Dewey number: 581 Audience level: jh-sh-c-adult Guide Format/cost: 16-sl-$48 Distributors / rental: American Museum of Natural History $1.50; University of Nebraska $2; University of Connecticut $2; Ohio Department of Education; Division of Correspondence Study, Film Library, North Dakota $1.50

Metadata Source:Educational Film Guide 1946