Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-10-26

promiscuously upon seeding stocks, the
cion determining what the roots shall be in
every case. Nursery laborers often complain
of how hard some varieties dig on account
Of their large, strong and deep.descending
roots; while others, having smaller and
more superficial roots, are very easily dug.
.Second.-He doubts and considers absurd |
the statement that cion inserted wrong
side up will take aud grow. Yet workers in
large nursery frequently come upon in
stances of reversed cions growing, and
growing as well and strongly as when set
with the right end up. We have seen sew
eral such growing side by side, and have
been vexed to think how inattentive to our
work we must have been, when grating, to
have gone on setting so many cions wrong
end to without noticing it. Cions set in
that way grow downward a little ways, and
then turn and grow upward like any others,
but have an ugly crook which makes the
tree unsalable
1hid.-He believes, with many others,
that young trees grated with cions from
bearing trees will come much sooner into
bearing than would be the case were the
cions taken from nursery trees. We would
that this were 50. Then could we have
trees of st, Lawro.sce, eRsd Astrachany-
Northern Spy, and other tardy bearers, bear
ing as young in the orchard as Duchess Of
Oldenburgh, Wealthy and Yellow Transpa-
rent. But it cannot be done. No matter
where the cion came from, even though it
may actually have blossom buds upon 1t, the
tree that grows from that cion will strictly
conform TO the habit Of its variety, and be
early, medium, or late in coming into bear
ing, according to that habit. The way this
error comes to be held by orchardists who
are not nurserymen is this A cion with
blossom buds upon it inserted into an old
tree, or younger tree approaching bearing
age, will often bear the same year it is set.
But, after that year, this cion will bear no
sooner than cion of the same sort taken
from the youngest tree in the nursery. Any
body can try this, and if they try it often
enough to eliminate chance exceptions they
will find what we say to be true. Dozens
on dozens of times we have tried to get
specimens of new fruit sooner by this
method, but unless the cion from the old
tree actually had blossom buds on it when
set we got fruit from the branch that grew
from it no sooner than we got it from cions
cut from nursery trees. OF course from
gratis on an old tree that has come to full
bearing we get fruit sooner than upon young
trees Of tardy bearing sorts, but with tn g
exception named (blossom buds on the
cion) we never could see any difference de
pending upon the age of the tree from
which the cion was taken.
FourM.-He says that healthy, good bear
ing trees can neuer be grown from cions Gu
from what are known as " water-sprouts, -
that tree so grated is ai,cays sickly, and
soon dies. Now, though water-sprouts ar
ng-jointed, with small buds, aud the wood
usually is poorly ripened, and though the.
are by no means to be chosen for grating
purposes, yet if cut in the fall and properly
kept during the winter, they may be uset
with perfect success for grating 1t i
pretty difficult to keep them, however; as il
? sand, moss, or sawdust, if as moist as ma
be used quite safely for ordinary well
ripened cions, water sprouts will rot, or be
n come so much injured as to make only
sickly growth. The same is true of cion
+ cut from water sprouts that have stood ou
on the tree all winter. But if you have tn
4 luck to winter them well (and the best plac
to do it is in the middle of a large bundl
of other cions, packed in the ordinary way
a you can grow good tree from a water
q sprout cion, and after the first year you car
! not discern the difference between that am
f a tree grown from a ashortjointed cion of tn
, best kind. We mention this because
4 water sprout is sometimes the only ne'
q wood we can find on an old and dying tree