. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. 1917 The WalnutâCultural Methods Continued from page 7. Grafting old walnut trees in order to form a top of some more desirable vari- ety than the original has long been practiced in a small way in California, but has been confined mostly to black- walnut stocks. Roadside trees and small orchards have been worked over at various times, running back as far as 1893 at Vacaville and 1891 at San Jose. Some of these trees now have a spread of branches of 60 to 80 feet. The average seedling walnut orchard is not satisfactory for several reasons; the nuts are uneven in
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. 1917 The WalnutâCultural Methods Continued from page 7. Grafting old walnut trees in order to form a top of some more desirable vari- ety than the original has long been practiced in a small way in California, but has been confined mostly to black- walnut stocks. Roadside trees and small orchards have been worked over at various times, running back as far as 1893 at Vacaville and 1891 at San Jose. Some of these trees now have a spread of branches of 60 to 80 feet. The average seedling walnut orchard is not satisfactory for several reasons; the nuts are uneven in size and form and the trees are neither even in size nor equal in production. It may be said that about one-fourth the trees produce but few walnuts, another one- fourth produce about enough to pay their own expenses, leaving the other half to make whatever profit is ob- tained. When the orchard is of grafted trees, grown from scions which came from trees that produce large crops, each tree will produce nuts like every other tree, and if the selection of nursery stock has been properly done the trees will be very uniform in all respects. Several styles of grafting have been practiced and all have had a fair degree of success, but modifica- tions of the cleft graft have been most generally used, each operator making changes as he thought best. If the trees are from two to three inches in diam- eter they may be cut off at about four feet above the ground, and below the branches, then three or four scions may be placed in one stock, or three or four of the branches may be cut off at ten to twenty inches from the body and the scions inserted. It is seldom profitable to top graft very old trees because of the amount of work, and the care which is neces- BETTER FRUIT Page 19 HONORBILT, The)' wear like ironâ HONORBILT SCHOOLSHOES Ask your dealer for Mayer Shoes. Look for the trade-mark on sole. F. Mayer Boot & Shoe Co. Milwaukee, Wi*. XADMILTON, ⢠BANK â Successful People ne
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