The Weekly Florists' Review, 



17 



GRAFTING. 



Under llic lieading '■Molo 



Pos- 

 sibilities" Mr. A. V. Folsom coiUributes 

 to a California paper an inU'ri'sting 

 article on grafting from which wc print 

 some extracts below: 



To Hi- -i"'' "I "I'.. IlllM.i M, l,,,|v ,,1 .-„„„,. 



Pllas..^. . !: • I '■ - -inn,. .u..,.l 





Its trult. The lemon tr. 

 from the same soil produ 

 materially In every esse 

 tills difference? It is t 

 may graft orange to lem 

 and the top graft will 



It 



In the 



and lemon, grape fruit and lime all growing 

 on one tree and the sap is the common car- 

 rier for them all. Does It reside in the wood? 

 The writer saw recently a lemon grove, the 

 trees of which were originally grafted on 

 bitter-orange roots, but oranges being more 

 profitable, the owner was topping the trees 

 preparatory to budding to navel oranges, con- 



The lemon-wood 



not 



But the lemon stem would produce only buds 

 after its kind. The structural difference of 

 the cells of these two woods, which micro- 

 scopic investigation would show to be slight, 

 the difference of the fruit. 



Budding permits the union of more widely 

 diversified members of a family. All mem- 

 bers of the citrus family bud interchangeably. 

 The order rosaceae, of which the apple, pear, 

 peach, rose. etc.. are members, is another 

 illustration of the affinity that exists In 

 families. Apples are commonly grafted on pear 

 stock to insure speedier growth, and those de- 

 siring rose trees can achieve their desire by 

 budding roses to peach stock. Recent dis- 

 coveries tend to destroy the old idea that a 

 difference in order was necessarily a bar to the 

 budding of one tree on another. A French 

 scientist has been conducting a series of ex- 

 periments in grafting along these lines and 

 finds that plants of entirely different families 

 might be grafted with success. For example, 

 the maple upon the lilac, the kidney bean 

 upon the castor-oil bean, the cabbage upon the 

 tomato. The whole question of grafting seems 

 to resolve itself into one of molecular similar- 

 ity. As chemists classify metals in groups 



marked by 



You 



cell formation an 

 would be only necessa 

 of determining the mc 

 to be able to graft it. 

 of surprising possibilil 

 orange on apple, not o: 

 barrier, but because the molecular aton 

 go to build up the apple cell are coarse 

 those of the orange and cannot ci 

 through the exquisitely minute channels 

 orange wood. Note the dif'*™"'"^ ^ 

 the close-grained orange wood 



that It 



A WARNING, 



We have received the t'oUowini; com- 

 munication from Prof. VVm. Trelease, 

 Director of the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden, St. Louis, under date of Dec. 14: 



It may possibly interest you to know, for the 

 benefit of your readers, that plant agents have 

 been operating In Indiana, at least, as repre- 

 senting a firm located at Shaw's Garden, St. 

 Louis. Mo. One such party is said to have 

 given the name of G. A. Sawley & Company. 

 If you care to protect your readers who may 

 be subject to similar misrepresentations kindly 

 announce that "Shaw's Garden." as the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden is popularly called, is 

 not a commercial etsablishment. does not sell 

 plants or have agents on the road, and knows 

 nothing of persons making representations 

 similar to those that are here referred to. 



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 leading trade papei^ ot the citi, , and at 

 its monthly niLetnuis tluii iic mi\ in- 

 teiesting ind u^i tul ili^i u^-n n-. upon 

 the ^allOus jiliisis ut tin w nk <t the 

 editois and publisheis ot tiadt louinals 

 Various sncnl c\ents have been inaug 

 uiated by the as-ociation, and the latest 

 was an informal entei tainmcnt on Dec. 

 11, at ^^h^ch the ladic-. \Mie pie^ent and 

 at which a most enln^able pioiriamme 

 A\as rendered by aitists who kiiullj ^ol 

 unteered foi the oeca-ion 



Of those who j; 

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Des Moines, Ia. — The Iowa Stale Ilor 

 ticultural Society at its annual meetin; 

 held last week Hcclpd the f.ill.iwini; of 

 fleers: Presi.l.iU. M. .1. Wim'-, \\:ni 

 kee; vice ].r(-i.irnl . X. 1\. l-liil^e. D.ncn 

 port; .secretary. Wesle 

 port; treasurci', IClmer 

 erly. 



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SoMKltVILLE. N. J. — As 



boiler explosion the greenl 

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