The practical fruit grower . slight and that numerous rootshave been sent out from the scion. The apple-root is now brokenoff and the Quince part, which is now a well-rooted cutting, isplanted in the nursery again in the same condition as the rootedlayer before described. Propagation by cuttings is too uncertainto be profitably employed. Nursery.—This should have a deep, rich, moist soil, and thelayers or rooted cuttings after planting should be trained to oneshoot. In from two to three years the trees will be of the propersize to plant in the orchard. The advantage of training theQuince in tr
The practical fruit grower . slight and that numerous rootshave been sent out from the scion. The apple-root is now brokenoff and the Quince part, which is now a well-rooted cutting, isplanted in the nursery again in the same condition as the rootedlayer before described. Propagation by cuttings is too uncertainto be profitably employed. Nursery.—This should have a deep, rich, moist soil, and thelayers or rooted cuttings after planting should be trained to oneshoot. In from two to three years the trees will be of the propersize to plant in the orchard. The advantage of training theQuince in tree form, although it naturally grows in the form ofa large shrub, is that the trunk is sometimes attacked by borersand if there are several trunks the borers are certain to workupon the inside, where it is almost impossible to get at them,while with a single trunk the entire surface may be quickly andeffectually examined and the borers destroyed before they cando much harm. Fig. 51 illustrates the form the tree would nat-.
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