. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. PLANT PROPAGATION 207 by working them upon the Quince stock. We may, Ukewise, in
. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. PLANT PROPAGATION 207 by working them upon the Quince stock. We may, Ukewise, increase the vigor of a variety by grafting it upon a stronger growing species. A familiar example of this is the grafting of certain Roses upon the Manetti Rose. Many times plants are grafted in order to render them more adaptable to adverse soils and climates. An example here is found in the case of Apples which are often grafted upon the Siberian Crab in order to render them better able to withstand intense-. CLEFT GRAFTING The methods of grafting are explained In the text on the next page. The above Illustration shows in detail how cleft grafting is performed—usually on large Apple and Pear trees. On the left are the cions with tapering cut; on the right, the branches cleft or opened, also showing the waxing over. Below is a section through the top of the stock ly cold chmates. Sometimes double grafting has to be practised, especially with fine Pears, but that is a part of the subject we need not enter upon here. Girdled trees may be grafted with a bridge graft. In most cases, however, the process of grafting is used to simply multiply the variety. Baldwin Apples are wanted; they do not come true to seed; cuttings are slower; so that some fonn of grafting is 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 origina
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