The Bulletin. 10 



Most of the apple stocks used by nurserymen are cither imported 

 from France or grown in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, or Missouri. If 

 so desired seeds may be taken from the pomace from cider mills and 

 seeds removed from it by washing in a box in running water. Seeds 

 may be sown either in spring or fall. The seed rows should be made 

 three feet or more apart and during the growing season should be 

 cultivated often. Do not sow too thickly or the seedlings will have to 

 be thinned out. By autumn the tops will be twelve inches or so in 

 length with an equal amount or so of root. The young trees are dug 

 up and the whole root either used for a single tree or cut into several 

 pieces, and whip-grafted on several scions. If so desired the seed- 

 lings may be shield-budded in the nursery row when they are one 

 year old. Seedling or otherwise undesirable trees, if vigorous and 

 healthy, may be top-worked in spring by top-grafting. 



Apricot: Siochs. — Seedling plum, peach and apricot. 

 MetJiocl—Shield-hiidding. 



The plum, peach or apricot stocks are grown as already directed. 

 (See Seeds for Stocks). These are to be shield-budded when one or 

 two years old. 



For light soils the peach should be given preference. On clay 

 lands the plum is best, while the apricot may be used as a stock on 

 rich, well-drained land. 



Blackberry : Propagated by root-cuttings and suckers. 



The suckers which come from the old plants may be taken aw^ay 

 and planted. Propagation by root-cuttings is usually preferable. 

 Select roots from one-quarter to one-half inch in diameter, cut them 

 into pieces of two inches or so in length, store them in moist sand 

 during the winter and plant them out in spring. These should be 

 planted an inch or two deep in rich soil. 



Cherry: Stocks. — Cherry (Mahaleb and Mazzard). 



Methods. — Shield-budding. 

 Whip-grafting. 



The cherry-seed must be so^vn very shortly after being taken from 

 the fruit or else stratified until spring. The young trees are treated 

 as already directed for apples, and either grafted during the winter 

 or budded in the nursery row in spring. They may also be propa- 

 gated by root-cuttings. 



