The daily sentinel., 1909-02-08

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out of every ten nursery men, he is
taking these scions from the bearing
boughs and wood of the trees. That
is, he will not take the water suck
ers," the sprouts and limbs that
grow near the bottom of the trees or
on the lowest limbs, but Mr.. Menat
sees that his men go into the high |
and top branches of the bearing trees
and cut off scions from the bearing |
wood of that tree. This is the first
time this plan has ever been followed
in this famous fruit section. In most
cases where scions are secured for
grating the little branches known as
water suckers are secured. Menary
proposes to produce fruit tree that
is grown directly from portion OF
the bearing wood of Grand Valley
tree. The great advantage of this
method is at once recognizable.
The usual plan of nursery grating
is to either take the water sprouts
which have never borne fruit or to
take scions from trees two or three
years old that have not yet come into
bearing. Menary, in perfecting his
Grand Valley apple tree product, pro
poses to make that tree come direct
from bough or branch that has
borne fruit and will bear fruit again,
thus giving these new trees perfect,
staple and direct quality and strain.
The trees will come from a fruiting,
bearing tree AS a result, besides Civ
ing healthy tree of known quality
and ability, Mr.. Menary declares that
he will be able to bring forth from
these scions trees that will bear
within a period of four years, and
many of them may bear within pc
riod of three years, or year earlier
than trees that are grated in other
ways
All of these scions being taken
from the Hamilton orchard are at
least seven inches long. They are
carefully packed and forwarded to
the nurseries in Iowa.
From the Hamilton orchard Mr.
Menary and his men are securing sci
ons of the Mcintosh Red, the Jona-
than. the Winesap, the Stayman
Winesap. the Rome Beauty, the Gano
and the King, and therefore he will
produce trees of these varieties.
Before leaving the valley scions of
the Winter Banana and White Per-.
maine will be secured.
Mr.. Menary will. as far as possible.
confine his operations to the Hamil-
ton orchard. This is done so that
the strain or ancestry of the trees
can be easily and quickly traced.
Mr.. Menary declares that the
| Hamilton orchard is the cleanest,
best kept and best conditioned or
chard that he has entered. and he
has examined orchards all over the
country. thus paying splendid trib-
ute to the typical. well kept and high
| class orchards of the Grand Valley,
OF which orchards the Hamilton or
chard is truly representative. The
long experienced nursery man de-
| clares that he never saw trees in fin
| er condition than they are in the
Hamilton orchard, and brands the
| scions he is securing as the very best
| possible. He says the trees are abso-
| lutely free from disease. fungus
growth and insects.
/ No orchard in the valley has a
| better quality of trees than the or
chard owned by Mr.. j. L. Hamilton.
and this orchard has already gained
much fame owing to the fact that a
| great crop was harvested from its
acres the past season, when other or
chards around it yielded little or no
fruit. owing to the fact that the
| Hamilton orchard was protected by
| splendid system of smu lying which
| Mr.. Hamilton operated with such
great and pronounced success and
demonstrated to the g ntry thG no
| danger need be feared -om frost in
this valley If the grower win prepare
to "smudge" when frost time ap-
proaches and keeps on the alert. as
did Mr.. Hamilton.
Mr.. John Adams, field superintendent
OF the Crescent nurseries. is one of
the members of the party carrying on
this most interesting and important
work at the Hamilton orchard.
| ha-
| tracted for all the scions obtainable
from the big orchard next season. OF
course the removal of the scions in
no way Injuries the trees.
| 1t is work that means much to
the fruit growing industry of this
valley and to that of many other sec
| tions of the country.
See Fred Mantey about harness oil