. The nursery-book; a complete guide to the multiplication of plants . e of his treefrom the point c. At the same actual age, and grown in the same place, thebudded tree is nearly always larger than the root-graftedtree, as ordinarily grown. The longer and better the pieceof root upon which the graft is made, however, the lessthe difference will be. The illustrations, all from actual andtypical trees, show some of these differences. Fig. 148shows six Ben Davis apple trees grown in a New Yorknursery. The two trees upon the left are budded. Theother four are root-grafted. The two middle trees ha
. The nursery-book; a complete guide to the multiplication of plants . e of his treefrom the point c. At the same actual age, and grown in the same place, thebudded tree is nearly always larger than the root-graftedtree, as ordinarily grown. The longer and better the pieceof root upon which the graft is made, however, the lessthe difference will be. The illustrations, all from actual andtypical trees, show some of these differences. Fig. 148shows six Ben Davis apple trees grown in a New Yorknursery. The two trees upon the left are budded. Theother four are root-grafted. The two middle trees hadbeen transplanted, but the two upon the right stood wherethe grafts were planted. It will be seen how completely thetransplanting has broken up the tendency to tap-roots and 154 GRAFTAGE. prongs, and has developed a more symmetrical root root system of the budded trees is deeper and moresymmetrical because the stocks or roots were longer. and 150 each show, beginning at the left, Fallawater,Golden Russet, Hubbardston and Gravenstein apple 150, Root-grafted trees. Those in Fig. 149 are first-class three-year budded treesfrom an eastern nursery. Those in Fig. 150 are first-classthree-year root-grafted trees from a western nursery. Thedisparity in sizes of short-piece-root trees and budded treesof like actual age, is well seen in Figs. 151 and 152. They ROOT-GRAFTED AND BUDDED TREES. 155 are Mann apples. In Fig. 151, the piece-root-grafls, uponthe left, are two years from the graft; the buds, upon theright, are of like age. In Fig. 152, the piece-root-grafts,upon the left, are three years old, and the buds, upon theright, are two years. The different root systems of the twoare apparent in each case. All these comparisons are not made for the purpose ofshowing that root-grafts are inferior to buds, but simply thatthey are different from them. Yet, the author is convincedthat very many of the root-grafted trees are made withsuch short and weak pieces of
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