. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 227 bear this treatment and make a full head of young sprouts, as Fig. 108 B. But there is much risk of killing the tree if it be old or feeble ; the ends of the limbs seldom heal so well as if they had been crown grafted (see page 2313), and even after buds or grafts have taken in such a tree, if at all neglected, they are apt to be ov
. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 227 bear this treatment and make a full head of young sprouts, as Fig. 108 B. But there is much risk of killing the tree if it be old or feeble ; the ends of the limbs seldom heal so well as if they had been crown grafted (see page 2313), and even after buds or grafts have taken in such a tree, if at all neglected, they are apt to be overgrown and destroyed by the sprouts. But in all large tree grafting it is highly important to give careful after-treatment, as directed page 240. PREPARATION OP GRAFTS. Fig. &. Grafts cut to proper length. Scions for making grafts are taken from the young shoots of the j)revious year's growth, rejecting the older wood, as well as any blossom-buds that may have formed upon the younger ; these are known by their round fullness, and are sometimes chosen to gratify a fancy for producing a fruit from the graft or bud the first year; but the growth is always injured, and the tree sometimes lost by the operation, which thus becomes too expensive. They should be taken from the tree before the ap- proach of spring, and either buried in sand or earth, or placed butts downward in a small pit or grave on the north side of a fence or building, and having sufficient straw packed over them and alongside them to keep them from diying out or be- coming dirty, except the butts, which, resting upon the bot- tom, will obtain sufficient moisture to keep them fresh. When taken out for use, let them be washed clean and cut up into. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Watson, Alexander. New York, Harper &
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