Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-02-16
BUDDING AND GRATING.
Dissertation 90 THIS Part Of Tree
Culture, by 0. W, Warner.
Also Tells something of the Health of
the People, sunday schools
ant Politics.
MOAB Grand COuoty,
Feb. 10, 1897.

To the Editor!
viii you allow me to answer few
Inquiries in regard to grating and
budding, as 1t takes too much time to
anewer each individual? give notice
| will not answer iuquiri,s regarding
horticulture by letter az 1 have not
time. II they win MAKE inquiries
through the NEWS, viii answer all
| questions am able to.
1t seems 80 simple TO me, the method
use TO propagate trees. prefer bud
ding to any other method OF propRgat.
Ing trees as 1t Is much the cheaper way
II you want to grow your own nursery
stock.
Apple seeds should be put
in a box mixed with dirt
and kept wet, and set on the
south side of building where they
will freeze and lhaw through the
winter. A watch should be kept that
they do not sprout too much before
the frost Is out Of the ground. A.
SION as the seeds are sprOuted, plant
them out from three to four inches
apart, in rows. The rows should be
four ieet apart. The plants should
have good care. II in good soil they
will do to bud the last of August or
September. II you do not want to
bud the first year, the seeds should be
planted In bed as thick as they can
grow, and then set out the next
spring.
get my apple stock from the eas
cost $3.50 per thousand; set them Out
and BUD the same summer. 1 bud az
coon as the trees Will DO; then can
40 ovee them again and bud those
that have missed. BY so doing there
will not be many that w!ll nave to he
grated the next spring. | graft those
which do not have goou bud. tue
next spring.
To bud, cut your scion from the
the tree you wish 10 propagate from.
he scion should tie OF the
last years growth. The tree
you want to bud should be as
large as leai tencll or larger.
81 lat the bark Two or tufes inches NJ
the tree from the ground, then cut the
bark cGosswise. Next, split tue bark
loose. Then take your scion la your
left hand, the top OF the scion from
you, hold 1t between the thumb and
iorefinger. Let the scion rest across
the palm OF the hand. Take your
knife in the right hand (kniie should
be sharp, place the edge OF the knife
half lnch above the bud. Cut In q
circle to the center, then down and
out half inch below the bud. Take the
bud between the lett thumb and fore
finger with the cut side NJ; then take
the knife ami press the bark from the
point OF the wood, then catch the
wood between the point OF the knife
and thumb, pull the wood from the
bud, then insert the bud under the
bark you have prepared, crowd the
bud down go 1t Ats close to the tree,
take strip o; cotton cloth the width OF
your finger, wrap II around 10y placing
It below the bud, and fetch 1t around
above the bud. Pull the string tight
enough to ptess the bed to tho tree,
tie the string in u single knot. In
week or ten Gays remove the string.
II you should commence soon enough,
you can replace all that have missed
growtug. | commence to bad in Au.
gust; then the next spring, as the sap
starts. cut the tree halfinch to an inch
above the bud. Keep the sprouts
pulled up.
In root grating tabo piece OF root
six inches To loot In length. The
easiest way TO grant the root ia to cut
II elaDtW lee, and the eclon the same
slant. Then take the knife, cut niche
IN the center OF tine root and scion.
Have the split to catch together.
Crowd them together. Have the bark
Of the scion AMI bark OF the root to fit
together Un the inside of the bark.
Take piece OF cotton cloth the width
of q finger, have Uome grating wax
hot enough to be in q Ilquid state, dip
the cotton string in tue wax, and
wrap It around the graft, 80 as to ex.
clude the air from the cut, ana dip the
top end OF the scion in the wax. You
can do this grating 10 winter in cellar,
and place in damp sand untilspTing.
Another way ~ 90 split the root, cut |
the scion in a wedge shape, insert the |
scian in the split, have the bark OF the |
root and the sciOn to match on one |
side, wrap same Us slant graft.
Crown and limb grattiug.-Ii stock |
10 large, split tue crown and insert "a
wedge in the center Of tho split, Drive |
the wedge Ia 30 90 to open the split |
one.sixteenth OF an inch; lnen cut the |
edge OF the split EN- 9th on either side.
insert the scion (which should be cut
in a wedge shape); crowd IL down, |
having the bark 10 match on tho in. |
eide, Scious should be from last yeAf's
growth, and should be- Waxed 20 TO ex-
clude the air. Limo grating Is tho
same PROCESS as crown grating.
CLEFT gTAfting-Push IA guaee be-
tween the bark and the wood; then
take theIscion,Ieu II slanting ON one
aide; put the cut side next o the woou;
crowd down; be careful not TO break :,
the eark; then wax the cut and top OF