Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1874 — Effect of Root Grafting. [ARTICLE]

Effect of Root Grafting.

Most nurserymen dig up roots of apple trees, cut them in pieces a few inches long, graft each piece, -plant the pieces in rows and cultivate them for trees. A Western writer in denunciation of this practice says: “After four dry seasons and four successive failures in making young trees grow, and after the disasters of the frosts following three of those years, I am prepared to state my opinion that unless our nurserymen change their methods of propagating and handling apple and other nursery stock, fruit-tree growing will have to be ranked among the lost arts. The average tree from the average nurseryman, as we now get it, is a watery-looking sprout with little top and less rootSy said roots having the appearance of a forked radish. It was propagated on a root or a piece of one,the graft having been a water sprout originally, and is probably ten or twenty moves and years remote from its original fruitbearing ancestors. If the season is in every way cool, moist and favorable, and the soil in which it is'put - is at-once rich and humid, the young tree will start off the first year and grow vigdrously. But it wjfl be a water sprout still—still continue tp make abundant wood; refuses to blossom and fruit till frost and droughts come together, whenit goes under."— N. Y. Herald. Preserving Grapes MTthTloney. Take.seven pounds of sound grapes on the stems; have the branches as perfect as possible and pack them snuglv, without breaking, in a stone jar. Make a sirup of four pounds" of honey and one pint of vinegar, with cloves and cinnamon to shit, or about three ounces of each is the rule. Boil them well together for twenty minutes and skim well; then turn while boiling hot over them and seal immediately. They will keep for years if you wish and are exceedingly nice. Apples, peaches and plums may be done in the same w ay. A lady physician in Utica has a practice "amounting to $4,000 per annum. Victims of consumption seeking relief and restored health should use Dr. Wishajt’g Pine Tree Tar Cordial. This is the ’only j>reparation that develops the full virtue of Tar.»i •jv The fact that five million of pairs.of SILVER TIPPED Shoes are made a year shows how those who use them feel about it. They know that they laot three times as long.