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Article: Author advocates propagation, without all the trepidation.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- March 29, 2001
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Ken Druse doesn't like to use the word propagation too much.
"People think of propagation as some kind of voodoo science, and it's just gardening," he says.
It's the kind of thing gardeners do all the time without thinking about it. That cutting you got from your neighbor? Propagation. Dividing those clumps of hosta and daylilies? That, too.
Propagation is just the production of more plants. So Druse called his new book ``Making More Plants'' (Clarkson Potter, $45), and kept the P-word for the subtitle, ``The Science, Art and Joy of Propagation.''
It was the joy that came across strongly recently when Druse spoke on the same topic as ...