The textbook covers the peculiarities of propagation of garden crops, substantiates the unconditional advantage of vegetative propagation over seed, considers the structures and technologies of nurseries for growing healthy planting material of tree fruit crops, berry plants, grapes, ornamental seedlings, seedlings of vegetable and flower crops. For the first time in the list of textbooks for agricultural universities, a manual is published describing the technology of growing planting material of all major garden crops in Russia.