. How to propagate and grow fruit. Stool Layering of the Quince. bush is then earthed up a foot or more inJune. By fall the branches will haveformed numerous roots and may beremoved and planted in nursery rowswhere they soon make fine trees. By ma-nuring and nursing a crop of layers may betaken every other year from the samestool. Plants may be formed by bending. Plant Layer. down a branch and covering a part With rare varieties we import fromFrance the Angers Quinces which cost $15per 1,000, plant them and bud with the rarevariety. This is the most rapid methodand makes the finest
. How to propagate and grow fruit. Stool Layering of the Quince. bush is then earthed up a foot or more inJune. By fall the branches will haveformed numerous roots and may beremoved and planted in nursery rowswhere they soon make fine trees. By ma-nuring and nursing a crop of layers may betaken every other year from the samestool. Plants may be formed by bending. Plant Layer. down a branch and covering a part With rare varieties we import fromFrance the Angers Quinces which cost $15per 1,000, plant them and bud with the rarevariety. This is the most rapid methodand makes the finest trees, as the Angerspossesses great vigor. We often graft cut-tings of the quince on short pieces of appleroots. The apple root sustains the cuttinguntil it forms roots of its own. All thesemethods preserve the identity of the vari-ety—but if seed is sown no one can tellwhat kind of quince may be quince does not root readily from cut-tings, yet a few people meet with good suc-cess by this method. Make the cuttingslong, and prepare them in the fall, plantingvery early in the spring. Propagating tlie Peach,and Nectarine, Apricot We class these together as all are workedon peach stocks by the same method. Nat-ural peach seed is used by the best nur-serymen from trees never budded, comingfrom Tennessee. These are less liable toyellows than see
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