Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1917 — SOUND SUGGESTIONS ON GRAFTING TREES [ARTICLE]

SOUND SUGGESTIONS ON GRAFTING TREES

Man Who Is Expert and Can Make His Trees Live Can Build Up Orchard. ■ . —.. \ ■ The man who can do grafting and make his trees live can build up a fine orchard with very little expense for trees, after, once getting a few specl> mens of each variety of nursery bought trees to live, for most trees are benefited by liberal pruning, and some will be beiter if cut back to a point near the for the first Three or four years. Some trees are quite expensive, and It takes a lot of money to build up a large orchard of them. The more varied the assortment of trees In your orchard or yard, the more necessary it Is that you know 7 how to graft in an expert manner, for some of the trees, such as pear, Japanese persimmon and pecan, will befound more difficult to graft than others, and It takes an expert to get results with some of ■'them. It means much for the Improvement of our native and exotic fruit and nut trees that every gardener should be an expert* at grafting, for by this means he experiments by graftlng dlfferent species upon each other, thereby creating many new and valuable hybrids. It Is by expert grafting that all the delicious peaches, apples, pears, pecans and 1 other valuable fruits and_ nuts have been originated and improved. It is because Mr. Burbank is an expert “grafter” that he has been enabled 5 to accomplish such wonderful things in the creation of new fruits and vegetables and flowers. Most of trie early horticulturists did their grafting in the late winter, just before the buds began to swell, and as a result very iqany of the grafts never “took" and made trees, because of the unfavorable conditions —the continuance of cold weather. ■ t