. The American fruit culturist. following pages have already shown indicationsof becoming generally affected by cracking. In such cases itbecomes desirable to regraft them with valuable sorts, or elsethoroughly to spray each year with Bordeaux mixture. The old and common way is to cut off the trunk or a few ofthe larger limbs, and insert a few grafts, say four or five inall, and compel them to form the whole new head, requiringthe lapse of many years. A much better and more expedi-tious mode is to scatter the grafts through the top—inserting THE PEAR. 499 so many that, each one forming a small
. The American fruit culturist. following pages have already shown indicationsof becoming generally affected by cracking. In such cases itbecomes desirable to regraft them with valuable sorts, or elsethoroughly to spray each year with Bordeaux mixture. The old and common way is to cut off the trunk or a few ofthe larger limbs, and insert a few grafts, say four or five inall, and compel them to form the whole new head, requiringthe lapse of many years. A much better and more expedi-tious mode is to scatter the grafts through the top—inserting THE PEAR. 499 so many that, each one forming a small branch of itself, thewhole taken together will make a full top in a few years. In order to render the operation plain, Fig. 639 is made torepresent the unchanged tree at an age of from ten to twentyyears. Many smaller branches are cut away, and those ofmedium size left distributed at as regular distances as maybe. As the tendency of the growth is upward, the top shouldbe rather worked downward in this operation, and the side.
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