Pingyu yellow poplar

Peng Chengwen, a worker at the Party School in Xiao County, Anhui Province, cut three annual, 1.5-foot-long branches from a big yellow poplar tree in January last year, about as thick as chopsticks, inserted them into a glass bottle, placed them on the windowsill of the house (let the sun bask for four hours a day), changed the water every other week and sprayed the leaves. A hundred days later, each branch quietly grew an inch of fibrous roots and produced four or six new buds, which was very agreeable. After moving the boxwood to the ground, the plant survived. Comrades who want to breed boxwood might as well give it a try.