The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-02-24
GRATING TREES AND SHRUBS.

l OhdE INV 4h66o AMI CuhODo.
| The time Of comparative leisure with
western nurscrymcn, says Prof. j. l..
Budd, in the Homestead, is winter.
During the proper time for summer
budding and laycring, aud for summer
budding and green wood laycring, at
;ention is diverted 10 other pressing
work For this reason, it is well to
plan for propagation in the graft room
10 the furthcst possible extent. We
have little need to tell of the growing
demand for ornamental trees aud
soil conditions of the different part of
the State.
A few hints on stocks, varieties and
and methods, may be useful to those
having little experience in these lines.
AS these notes are not written for any
special locality in our great state some
of the varieties and species referred to
will have 10 be touched lightly in the
northern portions.
Stocks and varieties are mentioned as
they occur TO mind, and the cases noted
by no means exhaust the list profitably
to graft in winter quarters.
On apple roots We may profitable
root graft European and American
mountain ash, oak loavcd mountain ash
dwarf mountain ash, dwarf oak-leavcd
mountain ash, and white beam tree
On apple also may be grown the
beautiful double lowering crabs. the
the ornamental June berries the med
lar, the cotoncastcr, and the hardy Chi
nese ounces.
On cherry roots may be grated the
double lowering dwarf varieties.
On plumb roots may be grated the
beautiful prunis tribota the double
towering sloc, prunus virgata fore
pleno, and others planted for ornament.
On Miner plumb roots may also easily
be giraffe the Chinese double Towering
varieties of the peach. On Miner
plumb Seeding may be profi,ably grown
the varieties of the towering almond
where strong cutting are not available.
On thorn stalks-grOwn in nursery
or taken up in their native haunts-
may be top worked in cellar Tie double
red. white and scarlet varieties of the
thorn.
On Usage orange may be crown graft
Cd the Eusian cut leavcd, native red,
Downing or other varieties of the null
berry. by using long scions and short
roots the scions will soon take root.
On Seeding of caialpa, speciosa may
be grated, the {. Bungel, and G.
kccmpfcri.
On common mock orange may be
grated the new dwarf and fragrant
double Towering varieties.
On layers of American wistaria may
be grated the new Chinese double blue
and white varieties.
On our native wauhoo may be graft
ed Euonymus latilolia and the white
fruited Euonymus of Northern Eu-
rope.
On Tartariau honeysuckle may be
grated Lonicera grandiflora, l.. fra
grantisiima, l.. Standishii, etc.
On common trailing honeysucklc may
bc grated the new fragrant Chinese
varieties.
Ga ash lcaved maple seedlings may
be grated the cut lcaved, crisp leaved,
and other sorts of negundo.
On hard maple seedlings may be
grated the varieties of the Norway
maple and the still more beautiful spec
les from China.
On Scotch alder, itself beautiful tree
NAV be grated Anus firma, Alus till
AGA. etc.
On our native birch we may graft the
ornamental varieties wife cree, growth
or we may graft in cellar, standard
height the weeping varieties.
On native hornbeam may 5e grated
Carpinus pcndula at a height of four or
five feet.
the beautiful white fringe the weeping
varieties, aurca pcn'!ula may also be
top worked on white and green ash.
On honey locust stocks may be top
worked Bujots weeping and sinensis
inermis.
On cottonwood stocks may be top
worked Populus Eugcnia. peddula. ro-
St. Julien, etc.
On white willow may he grated Kill |
marnock and Wisconsin weeping will
low.
On ctocks of white elm VIC may graft |
the beautiful weeping varieties. Also
it makes fine stock for Pianera Gus
nidaia one of the finest ornamental trees
of considerable size in northern Eu-
rope.
On common berbcrry stolons We may
graft the new purple lesved or the SUI
pcrior fruitiug varieties from. China.
Cd young Wiegelia rosea plants we
NAV CROFT desirable new sorts such as
Dicryillc. Dcsboisi, ID. kostcriana. u.
Sfelzucrii.
ON our native bladder nut we may
graft staphylia colchica.
On common lilac we wap graft Syri-
aga sinenss. S. Berangcr, 5. gigan,ca
). sana. double towering, etc.
without. at this time, extending the t.
ist il NAV be well to remark tina;
where young shoots used for scions arc |
90 pithy, a base Of two years OLD wood
nav bc used with upper part Of scion
IN new wood. As rule in root graft
ug the crown is the best point for in
erting scion.
Where stocks arc Urge enough, side
is best covering the cut sur
ace with clay and winding with waxed
10th as noted in vrafiinQ pear plumb