Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-30

trees IN your new plantation. The scions
must be small limbs Of the preceding sea-
sons growth; that is, in this case, the
growth of 1892 An older growth would
not be apt to succeed as gratis. Tie your
slcons together in close bundles and bury
them in the ground about one foot beneath
the surface. In the spring following, Just
as the buds on your young peach trees are
about to swell, is the time TO do your graft
ing.
Cleft grating is the simplest of the meth
DDS, and the style we shall recommend for
the amateur in this case. Dig around your
young trees down an inch or SO below the
surface, and with fine saw cut the tree
Off. You now understand why we wanted
the pit planted four inches deep-it was to
offer you an opportunity of thus digging
down, with the roots of the young tree still
below. With a very sharp 4snife trim off
the rough surface left by the saw. With a
thin chisel set across the center of the
stump or stock split it down two inches by
tapping on the implement with a mallet
The blade of broad bladed knife will an
swer as well as chisel- Have a narrow
but thin wedge made OF hard wood, which
force down into the center Of the stock, to
hold the split slightly open. Now, having
uEearthed your scions, take from them two
length, and with very sharp knife trim
the lower end of each into a long, straight
wedge to fit the split in the stock Be very
careful not TO break OF loosen the bark on
the side OF the wedge. Leave a bud
on one side of each scion Just
4 little above the cut forming the wedge.
and be sure that there are some good buds
still above Gently push the wedge down
into one side of the split, matching banks
and leaning very little outward to make
sure that all parts of the bark on the stock
and all parts of the bark on the scion are
each other at some point. Set outward the
bud left just at the head of the wedge Set
one of these scions on either side Of the
stOck-two in each stock-then draw the
hardwood wedge from the center allowing
the split to close firmly on the scions.
iAiHS oSAiAS EOOu NlhN 4AiAGu anu WCIi-
worked into a stiff mortar, which press
gently around the head of the stock and
the CRAFTS, forming ball about the size of
your fist Next rake on soil enough 10
cover the mud ball, leaving 4 bud or so OF
the scion standing above the surface, and
your work is DONE No grating wax is
needed.
At least seventy-fve out of every 100
gratis set carefully in accordance with
these directions will grow, and many of
them viii be bearing fruit in two years
from the season of setting.
To make sure of perfect stand we have
recommended more work than might be
necessary under the impression that per-
sous with no previous knowledge of graft
ing might conclude TO profit by our direc-
ticts. OF course two trees to the
hill for peaches would be too many and two
sprouts on the same stock would be too
many, but our aim is to make a sure thing
of ii for you. When the gratis have taken
and permanently established themselves
you can make choice of the best one TO re-
main. and then cut all the others away.
One great advantage of this system OF
grating lies in the fact that the bud just at
the head of the wedge in the scion is very
apt 10 form q root, thus giving you on its
own roots the variety you are propagating
\ peach tree thus propagatcd from the
old Spanish strain of seedlings will live
Just as long as if from the seed, will do as
cisely of the same character as that yielded
by the tree from which the scions
were taken. 1t has most decided advan-
tage over propagating from seed, owing to
the fact that seeds seldom come entirely
true to variety. If man has one really
good tree on his place he can, by following
our directions, have an entire orchard OF
precisely the same variety if he wills it. Or
if there is but one really good tree in the
all the neighbors may AZ
range with its owner for few scions, and
hence soon have it spread all over the
region. But don't misunderstood our
meaning when we speak of the old Spanish
seedlings-we mean those old-time peaches
that have peen here longer than has any
written history of them. Seedlings from
the new fancy kinds lately introduced
might be some better than the originals, as
TO acclimation, but they would not do to
rely upon. For years we have been MOTTO
ing seedlings of this character, finding
them unreliable and invariably of compare
lively short life.
The best time for planting seeds for
stocks is now, just as the seed is coming
from the ripe fruit, though, of course, it
would 90 to plant later If we were plant
ing for stocks upon which TO graft certain
good kinds we'd try to plant seeds of kinds
exactly simultaneously with the
kinds we proposed 10 propagate by graft
ing.
It must be understood that this article is
for plain. country, people to aid them in
good peach orchards themselves for
themselves. 1t is not for the nurseryman
whose trade it is to propagate trees. He
would take up his stocks, graft them in his
shop and then reset them; indeed, he would
not be apt to graft at all in his propaga-
ton of the peach-he'd bud. In many
ways he'd make the work easier than ap-
pears in our directions, but strict follow
ing of our directions will get the amateur
there all the same, and render it next 10
for him to miss his object
Speaking of budding leads us to think
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