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Title: The fruit-growers guide-book
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Favor, Ernest Howard, 1878- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fruit-culture. (from old catalog)
Publisher: St. Joseph, Mo., The fruit-grower
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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lreward their owner with a vigorous growth. At the end of the summer the trees will be one-year-old trees of the nurseryman, and can be dug as soon asthe leaves have fallen and ready to be transplanted to theorchard. If it is desired to use two-year-old trees, theycan be left in the nursery for another summer. There are special implements on the market for wrap-ping the grafts, planting the grafts and digging the trees.These are of great assistance in saving time and laborwhere large quantities of trees are grown. Cleft Graft Cleft grafting can be done on any sort of fruit tree andis used mostly for the purpose of working over oldtrees which are beyond the condition in which they canbe worked by the ordinary whip or tongue graft. It is thestjde of grafting that is especially useful where one has afew trees that have reached the bearing age and are foundto be unsatisfactory either in kind or in quality of fruit.It is the style of grafting that will allow one to work two Cleft Graft 263
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This shows a good way to top work a tree. Only abouthalf the branches are grafted at one time. 264 The Fruit-Growers Guide-Book or more varieties of apples on one tree. In fact as manyvarieties as there are branches may be top-grafted on asingle tree. It is a matter of great curiosity to see applesof different colors and sizes growing on the same limbs,but it is easily done by grafting scions of the desired va-rieties on bearing trees. New varieties may be oftentimeshurried into bearing by working them on the branches oftrees that have reached bearing age. It will be necessary to collect the scions for top-graftingearly in the winter before freezing weather and store themin the manner described above. The grafting is done earlyin the spring at the time the leaf buds are beginning toopen. At this time the sap in the tree to be top-worked will be flowing freely, but the scion to be inserted upon it should be perfectly dormant in a cellar. To do the work, saw off the old branch, if as mu

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