rootstocks

Updated: July 21, 2025

Obviously it suffices to exclude extreme youth, in other words, to exclude the use of seeds. Multiplication in a vegetative way, by grafting and budding, by runners or roots, or by simple division of rootstocks and bulbs is the way in which to limit variability to the partial half. This is all we may hope to attain, but experience shows that it is a very efficient means of limitation.

Hugo de Vries - Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation

In France the whole herb is used to distill with water in order to secure essential oil of sage, a greenish-yellow liquid employed in perfumery. About 300 pounds of the stems and leaves yield one pound of oil. From its creeping rootstocks short, sturdy, more or less widely branched stems arise.

M. G. (Maurice Grenville) Kains - Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses