*Now at Horticulture Division, I. A. R. I., New Delhi-12.
B. R. College of Agriculture, Bichpuri, Agra.
An experiment is described investigating the effects of planting dates at fortnightly intervals, during spring as well as rains, on softwood cuttings of kagzi lime. The cuttings in each season were taken from the same flush on all the planting occasions and were planted in 3" pots. All of them were kept under polythene covers in partial shade of lath house.
The humid and moderate rainy season, which enabled a very high percentage (79.2%) of cuttings to establish into new plants, proved far superior to spring when the results were very poor. During rains the cuttings planted towards the end of July or in August performed much better (94 to 98% rooting and 84 to 93% establishment) than when planted in early July (74% rooting and 51% establishment).
There was no effect of the treatment of the cuttings with indolebutyric acid at concentrations upto 1000 p.p.m. tried in this experiment by the concentrated dip method.
