. The American fruit culturist. quickly made, and another graft picked upand inserted, the root being held all the while in the lefthand, until worked up. The great point is to perform muchwith little handling. A single root will sometimes make butone graft, which is then called whole-root graft; but more 40 PROP A GA TION. commonly two or three, and sometimes more, which are calledpiece-root grafts. Each portion of root should be about threeinches long, and the graft about five inches. The comparative advantages and disadvantages of whole-root and piece-root grafting have been subject for con
. The American fruit culturist. quickly made, and another graft picked upand inserted, the root being held all the while in the lefthand, until worked up. The great point is to perform muchwith little handling. A single root will sometimes make butone graft, which is then called whole-root graft; but more 40 PROP A GA TION. commonly two or three, and sometimes more, which are calledpiece-root grafts. Each portion of root should be about threeinches long, and the graft about five inches. The comparative advantages and disadvantages of whole-root and piece-root grafting have been subject for controversyever since Thomas A. Knight introduced the latter in is apparent that the economy of piece root-grafting, in thatone root is made to serve as the foundation for several trees,must commend it upon commercial grounds—but it has advo-cates who also strictly maintain that it produces as many andas good roots as the whole-root process. The weight of evi-dence, however, appears against it—and there are few, prob-. FlG. 6j.—Whole Roots (Budded). ably, who at the same price would not prefer to try stockwhich had been grafted or budded upon whole roots. Figs. 62 and 63 by Mr. L. H. Bailey show the characteristicappearance of both processes. Root-grafting may be performed at any time during winter,and those who have much of it to do often continue the pro-cess the winter through. The roots when taken up in autumnshould be well washed, the tops cut off, and the roots packedin boxes with alternate layers of damp moss. Thrifty one-year roots are better and more easily worked than two-yearroots. Side roots, or branches, should never be used. The?.scions may be kept in the same way. This is better than•packing them in sand, which imparts a grit to them and dulls PR OP A GA riON. 41 the knife. DiflEerent modes are adopted for packing away thegrafts. The best is to place them fiat in boxes, in alternatelayers with sand, like miniature cord-wood, keeping the outeror graft
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