. Beginners' guide to fruit growing : a simple statement of the elementary practices of propagation, planting, culture, fertilization, pruning, spraying, etc. Fruit-culture. 14 beginners' guide to fruit growing as low down as practicable, care being given to leave all the stubs about an equal distance from the center of the tree. The operator now takes his grafting knife (some- times called also a grafting chisel) and his light. FIG. 11—GRAFT AFTER ONE YEAR'S GROWTH wooden mallet, and splits a stub down the center. This split should extend from 4 to 6 inches down the branch. The chisel is with
. Beginners' guide to fruit growing : a simple statement of the elementary practices of propagation, planting, culture, fertilization, pruning, spraying, etc. Fruit-culture. 14 beginners' guide to fruit growing as low down as practicable, care being given to leave all the stubs about an equal distance from the center of the tree. The operator now takes his grafting knife (some- times called also a grafting chisel) and his light. FIG. 11—GRAFT AFTER ONE YEAR'S GROWTH wooden mallet, and splits a stub down the center. This split should extend from 4 to 6 inches down the branch. The chisel is withdrawn and its wedge- shaped portion is inserted in the center of the stub, so as to open the split about one-half inch. Meanwhile the cions have been prepared by cutting them" in lengths of 4 inches and trimming each one to a long, thin wedge at the bottom. This. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Waugh, Frank A. (Frank Albert), 1869-1943. New York : Orange Judd Company
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