. The nursery-book : a complete guide to the multiplication of plants . Plant propagation. I5Z The whole question, therefore, is one of comparative len:,'tli and strength of riots (or stocks). A whole-rooted tree should be stronger and have a more symmetrical root system, at a gi\en age, than a piece- rooted tree. Yet there have been frauds comnritted in the name of whole- rooted trees. As a matter of fact, there can be no perfectly whole-rooted trees , unless the bud or cion is set upon a seedling stock which stands in its ;inal position, for some of the main axis is broken off in
. The nursery-book : a complete guide to the multiplication of plants . Plant propagation. I5Z The whole question, therefore, is one of comparative len:,'tli and strength of riots (or stocks). A whole-rooted tree should be stronger and have a more symmetrical root system, at a gi\en age, than a piece- rooted tree. Yet there have been frauds comnritted in the name of whole- rooted trees. As a matter of fact, there can be no perfectly whole-rooted trees , unless the bud or cion is set upon a seedling stock which stands in its ;inal position, for some of the main axis is broken off in the process of digging. Yet, if stock is well dug, this shortening-in of the tip of the root is so slight as to be practically of no account. If the pieces of roots are very short in the making of root-grafts, the graft has too little pi 'wcr to enable it to make a strong growth the first year. It is a very common practice to cut oS the entire top of the root-grafted tree at the end of th-e first year, in order to get a strring and straight body the following year. This practice is perfectly justifiabl e only that the grower counts the age of his tree from the date of the cut-back, and not from the date of the grafting, grafted trees are very likely to make such a short growth the first season that if the terminal bud should be winter-killed, the tree will branch too low, or if a y/,-. Koot-gra/l, headed back. 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 Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York : Macmillan
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