Vol. 21

Title:
SELECTION AND PROPAGATION OF IMPROVED KALMIA LATIFOLIA CULTIVARS

Author:
Richard A. Jaynes

pp: 366-373

Abstract:
Mountain laurel occurs in many forms and superior selections are available for propagation. Red-budded and white-flowered laurels come true from seed if both the seed and pollen parents are of similar kind. Seed sown in a greenhouse in November will produce plants of sufficient size by the following June to transplant into outdoor beds. Although of limited commercial value, grafting on forced stock in early spring or on unforced stock in June is successful. Clones vary in their ability to root from cuttings and display an increased reluctance to root as the stock becomes older. Cuttings from cuttings or young grafts root more readily than cuttings from the original stock plant. The more "juvenile" the tissue, the more readily it roots. White-flowered and red-budded laurels can be propagated from cuttings by using seedlings of known pedigree as stock plants.

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