. Plant propagation; greenhouse and nursery practice. more and[aradise. These areworked on one of the\aricties that do makebetter unions on riuinrethan on pear; for in-stance, A n g o u 1 e m Bonne. \^icar,Cdout Morceau, Amalis and Au-tumn Long Green.^ Al-ways in double workingdwarf pears both opera-tions must be as near theground as possible, soonly an inch or two ofthe first pear wood shallbe left when the doublework is complete. Popu-lar apple go-betweensare Northern Spy. Tol-man, Ben Davis andDelicious Amonjr nlums ■G- i64-trimming an ornamental I -Ombard is perhaps ^
. Plant propagation; greenhouse and nursery practice. more and[aradise. These areworked on one of the\aricties that do makebetter unions on riuinrethan on pear; for in-stance, A n g o u 1 e m Bonne. \^icar,Cdout Morceau, Amalis and Au-tumn Long Green.^ Al-ways in double workingdwarf pears both opera-tions must be as near theground as possible, soonly an inch or two ofthe first pear wood shallbe left when the doublework is complete. Popu-lar apple go-betweensare Northern Spy. Tol-man, Ben Davis andDelicious Amonjr nlums ■G- i64-trimming an ornamental I -Ombard is perhaps ^1^;^ j^^^ ^^y |,e sold when 25 or 30 feet tall. most in favor. 257. Origin of pear stocks.—Pear seed is secured inFrance from the perry (pear cider) ])resses. It is severaltimes as expensive as apple seed, because each seed mustbe picked from the core by hand. Most pear stocks usedin America are grown in France. Our nurserymen jire-fer them because thev are started in seed beds and trans-])lanted while still small. This tends to make their roots. 198 TLA XT rROPAGATION branch and to make them superior to untransplantedstock, both for budding and grafting. Many Americannurserymen consider Japanese stocks stronger thanFrench ones, but French nurserymen wont use thembecause fruit growers there are prejudiced against pear seed, chiefly from Kiefter trees, is collected inMaryland, Delaware and New Jersey canneries and used in the United States, butnurserymen consider seed from Japan to bel)etter. Though most ofthe Japanese pear seed-lings are imported fromJapan, some arrive fromHolland and France. 258. Pear propagation.—Standard pears aregenerally propagated bywhip grafting (305) onwhole stocks at thecrown. Only a small partof the lower end of thetap root is cut off. Thecion is shorter than inmost apple grafting—about four inches. Wax-ing is necessary. When These are about 9 inches Ions, the most . i^ • • J^,,p InrlnorQ nnrlconvenient length for handling l^l^ls
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