. The American fruit culturist : containing directions for the propagation and culture of fruit trees in the nursery, orchid and garden : with descriptions of the principal American and foreign varieties cultivated in the United States . Fruit-culture. GRAFTING OLD TKEES. 125 most unsightly mode of trimming is often adapted when a removal of the top by grafting is intended. Grafting new tops on old trees. It often happens that fruit on large trees is worthless, and it becomes an import- ant object to change the top by grafting or budding it with some better variety. In this case, instead of cu
. The American fruit culturist : containing directions for the propagation and culture of fruit trees in the nursery, orchid and garden : with descriptions of the principal American and foreign varieties cultivated in the United States . Fruit-culture. GRAFTING OLD TKEES. 125 most unsightly mode of trimming is often adapted when a removal of the top by grafting is intended. Grafting new tops on old trees. It often happens that fruit on large trees is worthless, and it becomes an import- ant object to change the top by grafting or budding it with some better variety. In this case, instead of cutting off large branches and grafting them at once, it is better to prune, the top in part, as shown by fig. 103, which will cause an /emission of vigorous shoots.— These are then budded or grafted with ease and success. And, as the grafts gradually extend by growth, the remainder of the top may, by successive excisions, be entirely removed. Where trees are not too old, and the ground is kept cultivated, good sized trees are thus obtained much sooner lg' than by setting out young ones. To give a well shaped head to such newly formed trees, and to prevent the branches from shooting upwards in a close body near the centre of the tree, the old horizontal boughs should be allowed to extend to a distance in each direction, while the upright ones should be lopped. This is distinctly exhibited in fig 103. The following judicious mode of renewing the old tops of trees formerly regarded as worthless, is given by George Olmsted, of Hartford, Ct., in the Horticulturist:— "These trees I commenced grafting six years ago last spring. / began on the top, and grafted one-third of the tree each year. It therefore required three years to complete the entire heads of the trees. " I like this method better than any I have ever tried for grafting large trees, as it gives the grafts a good opportuni- ty to get well started. Cutting off and grafting the top first, gives the grafts there
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