. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. NUTS. 437 ice-house is a safe place, or buried in earth where the sun will not warm it early; otherwise they are apt to start too early. Prong Grafting is recommended by B. M. De Long, in the excellent monograph on nut culture, recently issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture,* as follows: " In this method the prongs or extremities of the branches are used. Fig. a represents the scion or prong used, and the. Fig. 571.—Prong Grafting. method
. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. NUTS. 437 ice-house is a safe place, or buried in earth where the sun will not warm it early; otherwise they are apt to start too early. Prong Grafting is recommended by B. M. De Long, in the excellent monograph on nut culture, recently issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture,* as follows: " In this method the prongs or extremities of the branches are used. Fig. a represents the scion or prong used, and the. Fig. 571.—Prong Grafting. method of cutting it from the branch. The prong is cut as illustrated, and the wood on the prong (graft) is partly re- moved, being gouged out with the point of the budding-knife. This is done to allow the inner bark of the bud to unite with the inner bark of the stock, which union would be prevented if the wood should be allowed to remain in the bud. After the wood on the bud has been partly removed, as shown in Fig. b"^, the stock is cut off with a sharp saw, smoothed over with a knife, and the graft inserted as shown in Fig. c, and tied tight; no less than eighteen-ply twine should be used. The cuts are waxed over with grafting-wax. After the grafts have started they should be examined and if the twine is found to begin to cut into the stocks it is untied and tied on again; this will prevent further injury. The object of allow- ing the twine to remain a longer time is to prevent the cut * " Nut Culture in the United States, Embracing Native and Introduced ; Report by S. B. Heiges, Pomologist. Large octavo, pp. 141, i4 plates. tJ. S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Pomology, Washington, Government Printing 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 Thomas, J. J. (John
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