. The nursery-book; a complete guide to the multiplication of plants ... Gardening; Plant propagation. ROOT-GRAFTED AND BUDDED TREES. 155 are Mann apples. In Fig. 151, the piece-root-grafts, upon the left, are two years from the graft; the buds, upon the right, are of like age. In Fig. 152, the piece-root-grafts, upon the left, are three years old, and the buds, upon the right, are two years. The different root systems of the two are apparent in each case. All these comparisons are not made for the purpose of showing that root-grafts are inferior to buds, but simply that they are different fro
. The nursery-book; a complete guide to the multiplication of plants ... Gardening; Plant propagation. ROOT-GRAFTED AND BUDDED TREES. 155 are Mann apples. In Fig. 151, the piece-root-grafts, upon the left, are two years from the graft; the buds, upon the right, are of like age. In Fig. 152, the piece-root-grafts, upon the left, are three years old, and the buds, upon the right, are two years. The different root systems of the two are apparent in each case. All these comparisons are not made for the purpose of showing that root-grafts are inferior to buds, but simply that they are different from them. Yet, the author is convinced that very many of the root-grafted trees are made with such short and weak pieces of roots that the trees are dis- tinctly inferior. The practice of root-grafting fruit trees has almost disappeared from the east. East- ern buyers generally desire strong, heavy trees, with deep and full root systems; and there is an opinionâthough not resting upon definite experiments â that the deep-rooted budded trees enter deeper into the ground and make longer-lived trees than the root- grafted samples. The entire question of the ulti- mate merits of the two classes of > trees rests, therefore, more upon the way in which the stocks are trimmed and handled when ther propagating is done, than upon the â mere fact of their being budded or root-grafted. Root-grafting has distinct merits in the northwest, where own-rooted trees are de- sired (see Fig. 104), and it cheap- i^i. Pieee-root-grafts and buds, ens propagation; but as propa- gating is ordinarily done in our distinctly of the opinion that, as a rule, the budded apple. two years old. nurseries, the author is. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York, The Macmillan Co.
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