Method of growing plants in the roots of a live osmunda fern

Details Method of growing plants in the roots of a live osmunda fern Method of growing plants in the roots of a live osmunda fern

1977-11-21

1979-02-13

Bagwill, Robert E.

Plant husbandry

Process

47 66, 47 6, A01G 100

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041388020

ABSTRACT:
A planter is comprised of a living plant, such as an osmunda fern and the like, having a large porous and fibrous root, and at least one hole formed in the root of the living plant for receiving the roots of a diverse live plant, the fibrous root of the living plant being capable of absorbing and retaining water and nutrients for sustaining the life of the diverse live plant. The fibrous root of the living plant is preferably potted within a container which encompasses the root leaving an intermediate space between the container walls and the root which is filled with peat, or other humus.
The method for growing plants comprises: incising at least one hole in the root of a living plant having a large porous and fibrous root which is capable of absorbing and holding water and plant nutrients, wrapping the roots of a diverse live plant with sphagnum moss, inserting the wrapped root of the diverse live plant in the incised hole, and periodically pouring water onto the porous and fibrous root of the living plant so that the water is absorbed and held by the porous and fibrous root. Nutrients for the diverse plant may be mixed with the water poured over the fibrous root.

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patent: 107427 (1870-09-01), Wagener
patent: 3110128 (1963-11-01), Collins
Practical Grafting Methods, Science & Invention, Aug. 1927, p. 307.
New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Gardening, 1960, Everett, Greystone Press, N.Y., pp. 782-783.
New York Sunday News, Nov. 20, 1960, p. 104.
Jones & Scully 1974-1975 catalog, Miami, FLA, p. 146.

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