. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 942. Root-graft with long cion (X ^;i^. ..^^ It is then put away for future use, and will keep indefi- nitely. When used, the warmth of the hands will cause it to soften. The hands should be greased to prevent it from sticking. Cleft-tcrafting is the method usually employed in the top-grafting of fruit trees, a
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 942. Root-graft with long cion (X ^;i^. ..^^ It is then put away for future use, and will keep indefi- nitely. When used, the warmth of the hands will cause it to soften. The hands should be greased to prevent it from sticking. Cleft-tcrafting is the method usually employed in the top-grafting of fruit trees, as apples, pears, plums and cherries. Old peach trees are rarely changed over to a new variety. If they are, budding is employed, as al- ready suggested : the limbs are headed back so that new 943. Tree grown from a long-cion root-eraft. four parts of resin. The melted liquid is poured into a pail or tub of water, when it immediately hardens. It is then pulled until it is light-colored and develops a grain. 944. Grafting knife (.> \\<M.)d is .secured in which the buds may be set. It is ini- purtant, in all top-working of fruit trees, to keep down the suckers which spring up around the cion, and which sometimes completely choke it. In changing over the top of a fruit tree, all the leading branches should be ^'â rafted (Fig. 9:i9). It is well to stand at some distance from the tree and make a mental picture of how the tree will look when the new top is secured: the grafts should be set in approximately a radius from the center of the tree. It is rare that the stock should be larger than two inches in diameter where the cions are set. On some of the main branches it will bo necessary to graft side branches lower down in order to till the tf'p and to afford footholds to pickers and prnners. It will require from three to four years to change over the tree to a new variety. Each year a little more of the original top is removed, and the cions take more and more of the space. Ba
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