Trees, fruits, and flowers of Minnesota . ^-men and florist in Minnesota and also as a horticultural writer for thePioneer Press and by other similar services in an early day he has left hisimpress upon the fruit development of our state. We hope to be able to learnsomething further of Mr. Fords life in California for a later issue. Our lastletter to Mr. Ford was dated April THE MINNESOTA HORTICULTURIST. VOL. 32. JULY, 1904. No, 7. APPLE STOCKS IN THE NORTHERN NURSERY. ROY UNDERWOOD, LAKE CITY. The nurserymen present will appreciate that this would be a largetopic to handle in so short
Trees, fruits, and flowers of Minnesota . ^-men and florist in Minnesota and also as a horticultural writer for thePioneer Press and by other similar services in an early day he has left hisimpress upon the fruit development of our state. We hope to be able to learnsomething further of Mr. Fords life in California for a later issue. Our lastletter to Mr. Ford was dated April THE MINNESOTA HORTICULTURIST. VOL. 32. JULY, 1904. No, 7. APPLE STOCKS IN THE NORTHERN NURSERY. ROY UNDERWOOD, LAKE CITY. The nurserymen present will appreciate that this would be a largetopic to handle in so short a time, at least so if all the pros and consthat would arise at a nurserymens convention were to be draggedinto the discussion. The propagation of apple trees is much like thecare and cultivation of an apple orchard in that different individualsmay work out the problem along different Hnes with the same ap-proximate success, and, in the same manner, a grower may at timesfall into the erroneous conclusion that his is the only successfulmethod. So, in dealing with the subject, I shall endeavor to keep ahold on such generalities as may seem to be of the most acceptedapplication. Here in the north it has come to be a pretty generally acceptedfact that in an apple tree a hardy root is quite as important as anearly ripening tendency of wood and a tough quality of bark. Achain is
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