This species may prove to be of value as a stock for grafting with the shellbark kingnut and some of the good hybrid hickories.
Meyer no grafting or budding of nut trees yet practiced in China.
On one occasion my light went out when I was grafting walnut trees.
It went out when I was graftingthe very last tree.
That was before we had any success ingrafting hickories.
That is the sort of edge to use in all our grafting work, the sort of edge that will bring terror to the heart of the mother of boys.
But after many trials we have had the best results from grafting in the greenhouse.
The conversion of poor or ordinary native nut trees into superior trees by grafting will receive special attention.
He devised methods of grafting and cultivating the chestnut and invented means and machinery for harvesting and shelling the nuts, for which he found a ready market at good prices.
It would be quite out of place for me to discuss the various methods of grafting before this audience all of whom know so much more about it than I do.
A couple of years ago hearing of Mr. Biederman's work in the use of the plane for grafting with his Persian walnuts, it occurred to me to try it with shagbark hickories.
Popular religion took as strong a hold of the darker as of the brighter aspects of Catholicism, and was busy grafting the older notions of the soul’s future state upon the fresh stock of revealed religion.
Cleft-grafting is done in spring, as growth begins.
For the little grafting which any school would do, it is better to buy the wax of a seedsman.
On young or small stocks, like nursery trees, the cleft-graft is not practicable, and a different form of grafting is employed; but the teacher will not care to be confused with further details.
However, grafting is hardly to be recommended as a general school diversion, as the making of cuttings is; and this account of it is inserted chiefly to satisfy the general curiosity on the subject.
Into this stub insert two cions exactly as for cleft-grafting the apple.
Noble, for instance, informs me that he raises stocks for grafting from a hybrid between Rhododendron Ponticum and Catawbiense, and that this hybrid "seeds as freely as it is possible to imagine.
Great diversity in the size of two plants, one being woody and the other herbaceous, one being evergreen and the other deciduous, and adaptation to widely different climates, does not always prevent the two grafting together.
From the scholar’s point of view, no indiscriminate grafting of one essentially national and historic growth of form upon another is theoretically defensible.
The usual method of propagating it is by grafting it on to the common Larch.
This is propagated by layers, or by grafting on some strong-growing kind.
Many methods of Grafting are adopted, the following being the principal:-- Whip or Tongue Grafting is suitable for almost any description of trees.
The cuts should be clean and level, and when a saw is used should be made smooth with a chisel and covered with grafting wax.
The best time to perform the grafting is March, and it should be done on the whip-handle system, particulars of which will be found under "Grafting.
It is propagated by layers or by graftingit on to the Horse-chestnut.
The objects of Grafting are to bring a bush or tree into an earlier state of bearing than it would do naturally; to produce good fruit from an inferior plant; and to save space by putting dwarf scions on to rampant-growing trees.
Bind it firmly in position, and cover it over, from the top of the stock to the bottom of the scion, with grafting wax or clay.
Approach Grafting is the most favourable method of obtaining choice varieties of the vine, or of growing weak sorts on roots of a stronger growth.
They all need a peaty soil, and may be increased by grafting on to the common Spurge Laurel.
Tree Paeonies require protection in winter, and may be propagated by graftingon to the others, by suckers, or by layers.
Theophrastes or Rind Grafting is used where a tree has strong roots but inferior fruit.
Grafting of all kinds is best done in March, when the sap is flowing freely.
In the French mode of Grafting known as the Bertemboise, the crown of the stock is cut at a long level, about 1 in.
Note, too, that this grafting process reaches over beyond your apple trees.
Jack Murphy, a merry, reckless little dog as we know, used to tell a droll story of his first bit of skin-grafting in the wards.
Even the patient found out the error, and Murphy, who was a good-hearted fellow, wished he had known more about skin-grafting before he had punished him so.
The toughest and crookedest of the grafting aldermen felt a genuine interest and pride in his vice-sodden ward, and when the "Clarion" had helped to abate a notorious nuisance there, dropped in to see the editor.
This characteristic is a strange complexity of paganism and Christianity, or rather an apparent complexity arising from the grafting of Christianity upon paganism.
Pears are greatly improved by grafting on the mountain ash.
Prepare the stock and the graft in the same way as for grafting with clay in the common way.
After grafting the trees in the manner described, nothing is done to them till they are completely set, when the India-rubber slips are taken off to be ready again for the next year.
Varieties of this species bear grafting well, especially in the vineyard.
In France Noah was largely grown for a time both as a stock for grafting and as a direct producer for the making of wine and brandy.
It was introduced into France at about the same time as Riparia, and the French vineyardists selected the most vigorous and healthy forms for grafting stock.
Taylor was long grown in both Europe and California as a grafting stock for the Old World varieties as a protection against phylloxera, and is still somewhat cultivated in these regions for that purpose.
The value of grafting on resistant stocks had stimulated an interest among French scientists in grapes generally and particularly in the American species.
The variety is very resistant to phylloxera and has been used in France as a phylloxera-resistant grafting stock.
This fault is obviated somewhat by grafting it on other vines.
Care also has to be exercised in grafting certain fruit trees not to allow the grafted portion to be too close to the ground, else the scion throws out roots into the soil, and the object of the cultivator is defeated.
There was no evidence of grafting or parasitism, of the female branch on the male, the bark and the wood being perfectly continuous so that the only tenable supposition is that this was a case of dimorphism.
In another chapter, I shall relate parallel experience in hickory grafting which I carried on simultaneously with grafting of black walnut on butternut.
My conclusion now is that when these stocks are fifteen years old or more and are thrifty, they will support grafting of the Carpathian English walnuts much more successfully than they will in their first decade of growth.
This was dangerous but seldom fatal, whereas the gnawing of mice, near the base of the trunks, was such that in some cases when complete girdling occurred, it was necessary to use bridge-grafting to save the trees.
We use the wider strips for heavy work on large trees which have three to five-inch stubs; the narrower strips we use in the nursery, grafting young seedlings.
In grafting black walnuts on butternut trees, I very foolishly attempted to work over a tree more than a foot in diameter and I did not succeed in getting a single graft to grow on it.
In grafting young nursery trees not more than an inch in diameter, the whole tree is cut off at any distance from the ground convenient to the nurseryman.
The success of my grafting in this instance was only about 1-1/2%, showing that something was decidedly wrong.
I have had such grafts produce nuts the same year the grafting was done and these trees continued to grow rapidly and produce annually.
In order to facilitate my grafting work that spring, I pitched a tent in the woods and lived there for a week at a time, doing my own cooking and roughing it generally.
Scionwood may be cut the fall before grafting is to be done, after the growing season has ended, but some prefer to cut the scions in early spring.
It may easily be torn off at any convenient length or it may be cut without injuring the edge of the grafting knife.
All of the originally grafted specimens are dead with the exception of one variety which has been kept alive by constantly re-grafting it on black walnut.
A knife especially designed to make the cuts necessary for grafting branches onto fruit trees.
The tipping custom is educating the grafting spirit much faster than the prosecuting arm of the government can destroy it.
We are all growing to tolerate a kind of petty grafting that is not right, that is un-American.
It will not be surprising if, among the other evils fostered by moving pictures, the next generation displays a marked increase in the grafting propensity.
In grafting we started about April 10th; the first grafting was almost an utter failure.
Illustrations of methods of budding and grafting nut trees.
JONES: In all our grafting we cut the cleft; we don't split it.
It is just the same as any other graftingor budding process.
In many ways this industry is as much in its infancy as the apple industry of New York was sixty-five years ago, when varieties first began to be propagated in a commercial way by grafting and budding.
Russell Smith caught my description of it and speaks of it as "the bony-bush" we will allow his nomenclature to stand if members of the Association wish to call for any of the wood for grafting or budding purposes.
Then apply grafting wax to the cut surface, and cover all with a paper bag for two or three weeks.
Hazels do not come true to parent variety from seed, and consequently valuable stock is propagated by budding, by grafting or by layering.
A young tree, from two to five inches in diameter, can be sawed off four or five feet above the ground and topworked by grafting from two to four scions on it, by the slip bark process.
This method of grafting is a very simple operation when you know a few little fundamental facts about it.
I have found in grafting in winter they do not seem to grow as well.
By grafting in the spring and then budding, first with cold storage and later with the season buds, you would have three chances.
REED: In regard tografting in the nursery, this spring my experience has been somewhat varied.
The college will be very glad, indeed, to learn of any native nut trees of unusual value anywhere in New York as it is anxious to get material for grafting to native stock already growing on its various forest stations.
It is curious how generally this belief in something like promiscuous grafting was entertained by the old writers.
It may be propagated by suckers and layers, by grafting and by sowing.
The hawthorn serves as a stock for graftingother trees.
All weeping trees are made bygrafting in the nursery rows.
He may show you howgrafting and budding is done, and how a tree may be made over in a few years to change entirely the kind of apple it bears.
The attempted grafting of foreign doctrines on the true vine of the gospel of Christ was characteristic of the early years of the apostolic period.
