. How to propagate and grow fruit. third year if necessary, but such largestocks produce crooks where the buds pushout. It is more difdcult to succeed in bud-ding the plum than most other fruit nurserymen buy the strongeststocks designed for budding, and wouldtake no poor ones as a gift. They plant inrich soil and crowd them with high succeed in such stocks where theywould fail in poor stocks, or these not sowell cared for. How to Graft. (t---i. Cleft Graftings. Stocks cut and split,and Scions inserted. Scions for grafting are usually cut late inthe faU and store
. How to propagate and grow fruit. third year if necessary, but such largestocks produce crooks where the buds pushout. It is more difdcult to succeed in bud-ding the plum than most other fruit nurserymen buy the strongeststocks designed for budding, and wouldtake no poor ones as a gift. They plant inrich soil and crowd them with high succeed in such stocks where theywould fail in poor stocks, or these not sowell cared for. How to Graft. (t---i. Cleft Graftings. Stocks cut and split,and Scions inserted. Scions for grafting are usually cut late inthe faU and stored in moist sand in the cel-lar, but hardy varieties may be cut at anytime before the leaves begin to grow. Graft-ing out doors begins in the springwith the first warm days, andcontinues until the leaves areexpanded in May. The scionsbeing kept dormant the best timeis when the leaves on the stockare just pushiag out. But withthe plum and cherry graftingshould be done very early. Thepeach is seldom grafted. Withlarge trees a branch is sawed off,the stock split, a wedge insertedto hold it open while a scion isplaced at each side as shown inthe cut a b, taking pains to makea close fit where the bark shouldmeet. The cleft and woundshould then be covered withgrafting wax to keep out the air,made of equal parts of resin,bees-wax and tallow, melted to-gether. Whip Grafting and saddlegrafting are methods of splicingthe scion to the stock, offering alarger surface of contact, a
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