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.
I grafted perhaps 100 of thesescions as I have described.
Topworking consists in cutting off the top of some undesirable seedling and replacing it with scions or buds from some desirable variety.
No, gentlemen, our scions of the nobility do not reason thus.
The lastscions of the Della Scala family still reigned in Verona, the last Carraresi in Padua; the Estensi were powerful in Ferrara, the Gonzaghi in Mantua.
None of the scions branched in 1944, and all failed to show symptoms of the disease.
Prior to 1952, scions of the Colby walnut (previously designated Illinois No.
Less than one month later all buds had produced a foot or more of growth, and one to two scions of each seedling reached sufficient size and vigor to survive the following winter without damage.
The results were exactly the same, except that we used some scions of Davis and Fox.
The case histories of trees described in the present paper are considered to be worth recording because they show that black walnut trees may support diseased scions and later regenerate apparently healthy tops.
Walnut scions cannot be sent from Illinois to California.
The differences between the scions freshly grafted last spring and the known varieties of Rockville, Green Bay, and Burlington are distinctive.
Jones, and have placed scionson stocks in the vicinity of the nursery, where they can be watched.
Also, a few vigorous sucker limbs of the stock tree that grew out from below the point of union of the scions showed typical symptoms of the disease, although these limbs were later outgrown by normal shoots and are not now to be seen.
All buds and scions died, but the following year two of the seedling rootstocks showed characteristic symptoms of the bunch disease.
Black and Persian walnut scionswere set on eastern black walnut seedlings.
The late Judge Quincy Ward, of Harrison, and Quincy Ward, the famous sculptor, werescions of the same distinguished stock.
Scions of the House of Hare-court, or Harcourt, Counts of Normandy.
Reybold knew the reputation of the house: a resort for the scions of the old tidewater families, where hospitality thinly veiled the paramount design of plunder.
The advantage of scions from bearing trees is that you know exactly what you will get, for, presumably, you have seen and approved it.
In cleft grafting walnuts is it necessary to use scions with only a leaf bud, or with staminate or pistillate buds?
This has the effect of preventing the drowning out of the scions from too strong sap-flow.
The new tree grown from the grafts will behave just like the tree from which the scions were taken if similarly thrifty.
Will they bear just as good, or is it necessary to take the scions from old bearing trees?
This gives many scions which seem able to take care of the sap successfully.
The scions can be buried in the earth in the shade of a fence or building, selecting a place, however, which is moist enough and yet where the water does not gather.
You can dig up some year roots and use them as starters by making root-grafts with Bartlett scions and do better than with suckers, but a good pear seedling is the proper thing either for budding or root grafting.
I did a little grafting last spring, and as it was my first attempt, about ten per cent of the scions failed to grow.
Mr. Slate sent us scionwood and we grafted these scions in the spring and layered them shortly afterwards.
I believe we can have scions too dormant to graft!
Promising varieties may now be had by obtaining scions from superior bearing seedling trees and from young named and grafted trees in the nurseries of commercial concerns.
I got some scions that were waxed, and the scion was beautifully green and every bud was dead.
Although stocks were bearing when cut for grafting, and scions were from bearing trees and had catkins on when received, grafts were trained to take over and become the main growth and leading tree from the Craig crown.
This matter of dormancy of scions we could probably get into an argument about, but that isn't the subject right now.
Chase 30 Carpathian Scions for Testing 32 The Persian Walnut in Pennsylvania and Ohio--L.
Scions were received in March and April from Mr. R.
Those scions had come from Europe, and every one was dead.
Mr. Wang hopes some day to be able to send to America scions of a fine pecan (seedling of Teche variety) which he fruited at Chuking.
Under the law they built up their body politic, each member sincerely, blindly devoted to the dynasty of Othman, however many corpses of its scions might pave a Sultan's upward path to power.
The best way is to use yourscions from last year that have been kept in cold storage in sawdust or leaves.
Mr. Jones had brought with him specimens of stock, scions and all the materials and tools needed for the demonstration, and performed the various operations of grafting and budding before the audience.
I did not have the American there to test it by, but it was very interesting to me, and I am planning to get scions in the spring to follow it up further.
One may cut off the top of a large hickory tree and then peg the trunk full of scions by means of bark slots.
Almost all scions may suffer a little winter injury.
The scions died back, however, and the plantation stock came along so it is now a Japanese walnut grove.
JONES: We often use scions half or three-fourths of an inch in diameter, for grafting, but they are rather hard to get.
In cutting the scions be careful to make a straight surface on the cut bevel.
Last winter we could not get any ice, and my scions were just as good kept in the sawdust as if we had had ice; and I grafted thosescions in August and the grafts are living.
In addition to a eunuch and a nurse, each of the royal scions is attended by guardians, whose office it is to prevent his playing truant or creating disturbances in the kingdom.
In these corps of emigrants, many of the highest born of the French nobility, scions of houses whose chivalric trophies had for centuries filled Europe with renown, served as rank and file.
Willis seems now to have had great designs of selling scions to orchardists and nurserymen over the whole country.
Yet even if Alfred and Newman had found it, and even if they got the apples next season, he supposed that he would still be able to cut scions from the tree.
With good scions and good stocks and other favorable conditions, we have sometimes gotten over 90 per cent to grow, but the stand is more often much below this and the present season we did not average over 25 per cent.
With good scions and good stocks we have been able to get nearly, if not quite, as good results in Pennsylvania as we were able to get in Florida or Louisiana.
In grafting we used the wedge graft, splitting straight down and placing three or four scions on each limb three or four inches in diameter.
It is very important to pack the scions in excelsior and sawdust and be sure there is very slight moisture, and to paper line your boxes.
Then place a paper sack over the stub to prevent evaporation and leave this on until the scions start into growth.
Scions for Grafting Scions for grafting should be cut while perfectly dormant and packed in damp moss or sawdust, being careful not to have it too wet.
To graft the English walnut with unvarying and satisfactory results, under northern conditions, we must not only have good scions and good stocks, but we must control the sap flow in the stocks.
I used scions in Maryland this spring cut last February in this locality.
I found that by putting scions in cold storage they callous much more readily.
What are a lover's privileges in public--I mean with princesses and scionsof ancient houses?
Unfortunately, the only man I ever wanted to marry is a prince without a cent—you meet scions of all the nobility in pensions; but that, of course, means that they are as poor as you are.
She had met scions of the continental aristocracies by the score, but it was her first adventure with an Englishman of the higher class who looked as if he would love with difficulty and make love with ardor.
Paul, in his quiet west-country home, watched the progress of events, and saw in the tragedies which successively befell the scions of the House of York the vengeance of Heaven for the foul murder of the young Lancastrian prince.
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