. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Nine year old cherry tree showing poor growth and contracted trunii where graft was fastened with brad. made secure by an iron band. Appar- ently the brad had been driven into the stock and the scion impaled on the uppe rend. In the tree just mentioned the effect of the rusting brad was to deaden and blacken the heart wood. The tree shown in tlie photograph has been planted nine years and a com- parison with the size of the hand shows clearly what a poor growth the tree has made. Every spring the trees would leaf out perfectly and appear all right until the dry w
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Nine year old cherry tree showing poor growth and contracted trunii where graft was fastened with brad. made secure by an iron band. Appar- ently the brad had been driven into the stock and the scion impaled on the uppe rend. In the tree just mentioned the effect of the rusting brad was to deaden and blacken the heart wood. The tree shown in tlie photograph has been planted nine years and a com- parison with the size of the hand shows clearly what a poor growth the tree has made. Every spring the trees would leaf out perfectly and appear all right until the dry weather came on. Then BETTER FRUIT the leaves â would dry up, wither, and fall off. The branches made little if any growth and such fruit as did set did not mature properly. Only about three of the one hundred trees set out have died. I am (piite fully convinced that the rusting of the brads, when the stock was small, destroyed the wood to such an extent that the passage of the sap was restricted. This conclusion is borne out by an experiment I have made. For the pur- pose of pollinization I grafted onto the branches of quite a number of the trees another variety of cherry. This fact was very evident. On the trees that were growing well the grafts grew well also. On those which were not grow- ing the grafts, though apparently set perfectly, made no growth. Two of the trees which had scarcely made any growth since setting out I cut off below the old graft and made the new graft on the trunk. Both of these made enor- mous growths compared to the others. This last season a great many of the trees had some very fair fruit on them and they stood the dry season better. I rttribute it to the fact that they are getting of such a size that at the point of graft there is sound wood sufTicient to protect the ascending sap from the ctTects of the rusting brads. George B. Couper. Advises New Methods in Apple Handling J. H. Bengal, Wenatchee district man- ager for G. M. H. Wagner & Sons,
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