Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-03

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that YOU would like TO duplicate, and cut
from it scions enough to graft all the young
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 10 succeed as gratis. Tie your
sicons 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 10 swell, IS the time 10 do YOUR craft
ing.
Cleft grating is the simplest OF the meth
obs, 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 a line saw cut the tree
OF. AOu 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 very sharp knife trim of
the rough surface left by the saw. With u
/ thin chIsel set across the center of the
! stump or stock split il down two inches by
tapping on the implement with mallet
! The blade Of broad bladed knife will an
swer is well as 4 chise. Have 4 marrow
but thin wedge made Of hard wood which
! force down into the center of the stock to
hold the split slightly open. Now, having
! unearthed YOUR scions, take from them two
sections. each some five or SIX inches in
length and with very sharp knife trim
the lower end OF each into long. straight
( wedge 10 fit the split in the stock Be very
! careful not TO break OF Loosen the bark on
the side of the wedge Leave = bud
I on one side OF each scion lust
/ a 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 al parts Of the bark on the scion are
! brought into direct contact by crossing
| each other al some point. Set outward the
! bud left Just at the head of thsay edge. Set
| one Of these scionS on either side Of the
! Stock-two il each stock-then draw the
| hardwood wedge from the center allowing
! the split to close firmly on the scions
Have some good clay mixed and well
worked into stif mortar, which press
gently around the head of the stock and
the CRAFTS, forming ball about the size Of
your fist. Next rake Oh soil enough 10
| cover the mud ball. leaving bud or 50 of
the scion standing above the surface and
your work is done, No grating wax is
needed
least seventy-fve ont Of every 100
crafts set carefully in accordance with
these directions VIII grow, aud many of
them viii be bearing fruit in two years
from the season of setting.
To make sure OF 4 perfect stand we have
recommended more work than might be
necessary Under the impression that per
sons with nc previous knowledge of graft
lug might conclude TO profit by our direc-
tons. OF course TWO trees 10 the
hill for peaches would DE too many and two
sprouts on the same stock would be too
many. but our aim IS TO make a sure thing
OF i for You. When the gratis have taken
and permanently established themselves
sou can make choice Of the best one 10 re-
main. ana 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 il the scion is very
apt 10 form root, thus giving YOU on its |
own roots the variety You are propagating
\ peach tree thus propagated from the |
old Spanish strain Of seedlings will live !
Just As long as if from the seed, will do as |
well in every way, and viii yield fruit pre- |
cisely OF the same character as that Welded |
by the tree from which the scions
were taken. II has most decided advan- !
tage over propagating from seed, owing TO |
the fact that seeds seldom come entirely 4!
true to variety. If a 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 il. Or |
il there IS but one really good tree in the |
ucighborhood, all the negnbors may ar |
range with its owner for a few scious. and |
hence soon have it spread all over the |
region. But don't misunderstood orr |
meaning when we speak of the Old Spanish !
seedlings-wt mean those old-time peaches |
that have Deen mere longer than has any |
written history of them. Seedlings from |
the new fancy kinds lately introduced |
nigh be some better than the originals as
10 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 i now, just as the seed is coming
from ,he ripe fruit, though, of course. il
would do to plant later. If we were plant
ing for stocks upon which TO graft certain
good kinds we'd Try 10 plant seeds of kinds
rIpening exactly simultaneously with the
kinds we proposed 10 propagate by graft
ing.
J. must De understood that this article is
for plaius country, people to aid them in
making good peach orchards themselves for
themselves L is not for the nurseryman
whose trade it is 10 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 tEe work easier than ap-
pears il our directions, but strict follow
ing Of our directions will get the amateur
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