Excerpt from Torreya, Vol. 6: A Monthly Journal of Botanical Notes and News; January, 1906 In October before the leaves had fallen, twigs 10 - 15 mm. Thick and 30 cm. Long were cut from a young weeping willow about ten feet high. The branches used were erect and not the pendent twigs. When these were put with one half in the water and the other in the air (not especially moist) they eventually formed roots in the water and leaf-buds in the air, whether the twigs were inverted or not. During the winter the leaf-buds elongated as branches 15 cm. Long. The only leaves formed under water were from visible buds while in the air there were leaves formed in addition to those coming from visible buds. It was thought that the roots came out sooner from the basal ends in water than from the apical ends in water, but this may have been due to differences in temperature caused by one set of jars being nearer to the source of heat. Transplanted into earth, some lived several months, but both the inverted and the non inverted twigs died. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.