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TiIE NURSERY-LIST 327
whole operation is co~crcd with earth, there is no danger of
(lrying up, a.5 is sometimes the case when fruit trees are topgraft
d .
“ A very important consideration, to insure success, is to equalize
the stock and cion. If, therefore, large st,ocks are to be grafted,
we must ha\-c strong, well-developed wood for the cions, and have
l)u& enough to taliCb up the full flow of sap, while small stocks, if
~lsetl at all, shoul~l be grafted with small cions of onI>? two or three
lwis. \Yhc~n the stocks are strong, I take t.wo cions and insert
ow on CYLC~~ sick of the stock, of full length, say from 14 to 16
in(*ht5, ;inrl with six to tbight buds each. This has many advantages.
‘UN> principal OIW is tllut they will elaborate anal work up the entire
flow Clf sap. i\notiwr is, that if the cions have well-developed
fruit l)ucls, thti>* will produce quite a number of clusters from the
iippcr hds, and thus show the character of the fruit the first year.
1 IIUIY~ pickr~tl a thousand pounds of grapes from an acre thus
gr:lfttvi, the first summer, and a full1 crop of five or six tons per acre
t ht: follr~~ving stlabx)n. .Another ad\-antage is t,hat it establishes
11~1 crown of the graft at the right distance from the ground, as the
t IlrtY~ uppt”r thuds ivill produce the canes for the nest season’s
ht3riilg. if Ibotli GoiiS grow, cut off the kv-cukcst. above the junction
the nest spring, lc2t\.ing -only the strongest. T generally find that
tlltb wholly surfacth of the stock is c~ver~~tl 1~)~ the ;WW growth, and
tllat tlic* junction lWwet&ii stock and cion is perfect. Another
atl\‘;lnta- arc more apt to run over and tlisturl> the small
graft5 than thtb I;trg~~(b ones, which arc protected by hills of earth
~I)oIY~ the% 5:1irf;1c(h ; nor are the young shoot.; disturl,ecl and broken
SO tb:l.-;il>. 11~7 c;trt~l~~~ Iluntl~ or high winds. ;I stake should be driven