The Bulletin. 21 



Hazel Nut: Propagated by suckers, layers and cuttings. 



While the hazel nut nray be propagated from suckers and cuttings 

 the best method is by means of layers. These should be bent out 

 from the parent plant, pegged down with a crotched stick and covered 

 wilh three or four inches of dirt. If put down in spring before 

 growth starts they will be ready to transplant the following autumn. 



Mulberry : Stocks. — White and Russian mulberry. 



Methods. — Propagated by cuttings and by saddle or 

 cleft-grafting. 



Roots readily from cuttings; these should be taken from the trees 

 in autumn, stored until spring and then set out. Sometimes the mul- 

 berries are grown by grafting on white or Russian mulberry stocks. 

 Good results can be secured by saddle-gTafting on pieces of white mul- 

 berry root. This work should be done in winter and the young plants 

 stored until spring and then planted. 



Peach : Stock. — Peach. 



Method. — Shield-budding. 



The seeds should be sown in autumn, shallow enough to be exposed 

 to frost, which helps materially in cracking them. For more uniform 

 results the pits may sometimes be cracked by hand and sowed in 

 spring. The seeds should not be allowed to dry out. This can be 

 prevented by stratifying them. If planted in good gTOund the stocks 

 will be ready to bud early in the same summer. The peach is com- 

 monly propagated by shield-budding in the nursery row. Very easily 

 propagated. 



Pear: Stocks.- — Pear; Dwarf pears on Anger's quince. 



Chinese (Keiffer, Smith, Le Conte, Garber) pears 

 from cuttings. 



Methods. — Shield-budding. 



Whip-gTafting with long scions. 



Stocks are grown as in the case of the apple, and the seedlings are 

 transplanted to nursery row and budded when one year old. The 

 Chinese pears grow nicely from cuttings made in winter and planted 

 out in spring. 



Pecan : Stock. — Pecan. 



Methods. — Annular and patch-budding. 

 Whip-grafting. 



Cleft-graft is used to some extent in top-work- 

 ing. 



