. The California fruits and how to grow them. A manual of methods which have yielded greatest success: with lists of varieties best adapted to the different districts of the state. Fruit-culture. Liquid Grafting Wax. 8i to take out as much wax as possible, and when the cloth is cold, tearing it up into half-inch strips for small grafts or wider strips for large grafts. While grafting is going on in-doors, these strips hanging near the stove are kept in good, soft condition for use. There are grafting preparations which do not require heat- ing, but remain in a semi-fluid state, and then become
. The California fruits and how to grow them. A manual of methods which have yielded greatest success: with lists of varieties best adapted to the different districts of the state. Fruit-culture. Liquid Grafting Wax. 8i to take out as much wax as possible, and when the cloth is cold, tearing it up into half-inch strips for small grafts or wider strips for large grafts. While grafting is going on in-doors, these strips hanging near the stove are kept in good, soft condition for use. There are grafting preparations which do not require heat- ing, but remain in a semi-fluid state, and then become very hard by contact with the air. The following is a popular French preparation:— Melt one pound of resin over a gentle fire. Add to it one ounce of beef tallow, and stir it well. Take it from the fire, let it cool down a little, and then mix with it a tablespoonful of spirits of turpentine, and after that add about seven ounces of very strong alcohol. The alcohol cools it down so rapidly that it will be necessary to put it once more on the fire, stirring it constantly. Great care is necessary to avoid igniting the alcohol. This wax is easily prepared, and when well corked will keep for six months. It is put on the wounded part of the tree, very thin, and soon becomes as hard as stone. Thus it is valuable not only for grafting, but for covering the scars caused by re- moving limbs in pruning. When bench grafting is done by nurserymen, of course all appliances are arranged for the speed- iest work, and wonderfid results are attained by one man and a helper, even as many as three thousand root grafts of apple in ten hours. We are, however, merely discussing home practises. Cleft Grafting.—Where various-sized stocks are to be used, as will be the case with a bunch of ho^me-grown seedlings, different styles of grafting must be used. Where the stock is much larger than the scion, as is apt to be the case with Cali- fornia seedlings, the cleft graft will be simplest. Cut oiH th
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