Furthermore, a number of trees of the three-letter designations have been removed or topworked because they produced very small nuts, or showed poor keeping quality, or because of some other undesirable characteristic.
Bearing-size trees topworked one spring will generally produce a few nuts in the second subsequent growing-season.
Some of the trees in this planting have been topworked to selections from other plantings, including the variety Carr which showed up very poorly in comparison with most of the seedlings.
Finally, plant seed in another 30 acres, spaced 80 feet apart, the seedlings to be eventually topworked to the wood of promising discoveries from the first plot.
The spring of 1946 showed the topworked Schafer still dormant, while all the others were active.
In a short nursery row, buds were placed under first or second year bark, while larger trees were topworked by placing the buds mostly under the bark of second year limbs.
Richards and Mr. Rhodes have been most active in showing that these can be topworked readily to improved black walnut varieties under the conditions prevailing there.
The topworked Schafer was still dormant, while its companion Broadview in the same tree suffered like the rest.
We topworked scions of some of our good varieties, like Nanking and Meiling, onto large seedlings we have at Beltsville that are poor bearers.
A very large portion of the European chestnut orchards in Portugal are made up of seedling trees, topworked with local selections.
If a large number of grafts are inserted in such a topworked tree or in stock sprouts which start and are grafted in the following year the work is successful.
A great part of this orchard has since been topworked with prunes.
Several seedling Chinese chestnuts were topworked to selected Chinese chestnuts, grafts of which were obtained from the Division of Forest Pathology of the U.
Stambaugh again led in topworked black walnuts, bearing its second consecutive full crop on a 3-year graft.
Mr. Oakes topworked a black walnut with Crath Seedling No.
On account of the restrictions on driving I did not visit Mr. Beeman at New Preston, but he wrote me that he had a few quarts of hickory nuts, chiefly Glover from one of his large topworked trees.
Mr. Reed: I didn't know he had topworked hickories.
Most of the trees that have been topworked to pecan have been various kinds of large hickories.
Mr. Littlepage: Do you know the variety of hickory that it was topworked to?
We have topworked a great many hickories to pecan, but we do not expect permanent satisfactory results.
The pecan topworked to the pecan, however, is a perfect success and there is no reason why the wild hickories of all descriptions cannot be successfully and profitablytopworked to the better varieties of the good shagbark hickories.
A few years ago a friend of mine wrote me he had bought some land, and was planting native walnuts in the fence corners to be topworked with English walnuts.
Today, the orchards of both seedling trees and illy-selected varieties are being topworked at great expense of time, labor, and money.
I have found several English walnuts topworked on black walnuts, one done eighty years ago down in Maryland.
Members of this association havetopworked pecans, hickories, etc.
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.
Other trees that I had topworked had made a moderate growth, and were not injured in the least.
The wild black walnut trees, growing around the fields and hills, can all be very easily topworked to the English walnut by the slip bark method.
They claim that the pecan topworked on the hickory, only bears for a few years, and then stops.
Almost any size tree can be topworked but, of course, the larger the tree the more difficult the operation.
Different limbs of a large tree were topworked to the Thomas and the Allen varieties of black walnut.
At one time I had Thill variety topworked on Juglans Sieboldiana stock, but the stock was killed by cold winter.
After lunch we visited Mr. Stephen Bernath's farm nut planting, then the topworked hickory woods on Mr. Wm.
Experimental orchards, both of transplanted nursery trees and of topworked native trees, have been established in widely separated parts of the country.
The size of the crop that any topworked hickory tree will bear will depend on the size to which you have been able to grow the tree and the habit of bearing of the particular variety.
Eight thousand acres of the acreage now out, are seedling trees that must be topworked before Oregon will be truly famous for the quality of the nuts it produces.
Of course a tree of any size may be topworked but the labor is disproportionately greater, especially in the after care.
It is therefore possible that insect vectors or other agencies may have spread the disease to the scions of the topworked seedlings from the infected heartnut and butternut trees.
Out of more than one hundred seedling scions from 13 hybrids topworked on large nigra trees, three have become diseased the first or second year after the scions began to grow on black walnut stock.
This tree has shown behavior almost identical with that of Number 838, but three seedlings were topworked instead of one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "topworked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
