. Agriculture for beginners. without graft-ing. They thus often produce really worthless trees. Bygrafting they would make sure not only of having goodtrees rather than poor ones but also of having the par-ticular kind of fruit that theywish; hence you must now graftyour tree. First you must decide whatvariety of apple you want to growon your tree. The MagnumBonum is a great favorite as afall apple. The Winesap is agood winter apple, while the RedAstrachan is a profitable earlyapple, especially in the lowlandof the coast region. The North-ern Spy, yEsop, and Spitzenbergare also admirable speci
. Agriculture for beginners. without graft-ing. They thus often produce really worthless trees. Bygrafting they would make sure not only of having goodtrees rather than poor ones but also of having the par-ticular kind of fruit that theywish; hence you must now graftyour tree. First you must decide whatvariety of apple you want to growon your tree. The MagnumBonum is a great favorite as afall apple. The Winesap is agood winter apple, while the RedAstrachan is a profitable earlyapple, especially in the lowlandof the coast region. The North-ern Spy, yEsop, and Spitzenbergare also admirable species. Pos-sibly some other apple that youknow may suit your taste and needs better. If you have decided to raise an -^sop or a MagnumBonum or a Winesap, you must now cut a twig from thetree of your choice and graft it upon the little tree thatyou have raised. Choose a twig that is about the thick-ness of your young tree at the point where you wish tograft. Be careful to take your shoot from a vigorous,healthy part of the Fig. 64. TaNGUE Grafting 84 AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS There are many ways in which you may join your chosen shoot or twig upon your young tree, but perhaps the bestone for you to use is known as tonguegrafting. This is illustrated in Fig. upper part, b, which is the shootor twig that you cut from the tree, isknown as the scion ; the lower part, a,which is your original tree, is calledthe stock. Cut your scion and stock as shownin Fig. 64. Join the cut end of thescion to the cut end of the you join them,notice that underthe bark of each there is a thin layerof soft, juicy tissue. This is called thecambium. To make a a successful graft,the cambium in the scion must exactly join the cambium in the stock. Be careful, then, to see that cambium meets cambium. You now see why grafting can be more successfully done if you select a scion and stock of nearly the same size. After fitting the parts closely together, bind them with cotton yarn (see Fi
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