The practical fruit grower . A I Sca>P1a* as follows: Melt together equal parts of rosin, beeswax and tallow;or one-half the quantity of good linseed oil in place of the tallowmay be used. When cool, the mixture should be pulled, to giveit toughness. In very cool weather it must be put inslightly warmed water, to make it work easily; and inwarm days, it should be taken to the orchard in coldwater. Two cions are generally put into each cleft,when large enough, to insure success; but when growthof both lias become certain, one should be cut off. In this method of grafting only the branches us
The practical fruit grower . A I Sca>P1a* as follows: Melt together equal parts of rosin, beeswax and tallow;or one-half the quantity of good linseed oil in place of the tallowmay be used. When cool, the mixture should be pulled, to giveit toughness. In very cool weather it must be put inslightly warmed water, to make it work easily; and inwarm days, it should be taken to the orchard in coldwater. Two cions are generally put into each cleft,when large enough, to insure success; but when growthof both lias become certain, one should be cut off. In this method of grafting only the branches usedfor clefts are cut away the first season; for, to cutthem all away, would give the tree too severe a suckers that may come out near the cleft duringthe summer should he removed, that the force of growthmay all go into tin cion. The best time for grafting is just as the buds beginto swell, which, for the Apple and pear, is from April15th to Mav loth in the latitude of Boston, or between. Fig. 24. TIME TO GRAFT. 25 the forty-second and forty-third parallels. The plum and cherrymust be grafted much earlier to be successful, or from April 1stto April loth, according to the season. It is often advisable tograft only one-half of the tree the first year, and the balance thenext season, to prevent injury from too severe pruning. 26 CLASSIFICATION OF VARIETIES. CHAPTER VIII. VARIETIES OF APPLES. NUMBER OF VARIETIES—SELECTION—NEW VARIETIES—CLASSIFI-CATION OF VARIETIES—STANDARD SORTS OF SUMMER, FALLAND WINTER APPLES—CRAB APPLES—PROMISING NEW KINDS. At the present time, there probably are not less than onethousand kinds of Apples in cultivation, each possessing somemarked characteristic that will enable it to claim the name of adistinct variety. The variations most commonly found are inform, size, color, quality, time of ripening, habit of growth, colorof shoots, and leaves, and their liability to the attack of insectsor diseases. Of the numerous varieties that have
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