GRAFTING APPLE ON THORN. 



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placed in a position to do this, because fruit 

 to-day is not a luxury, but really a neces- 

 sity." 



THE GENEAL STATEMENT. 



The whole matter was summed up and 

 finally presented in the following form, 

 which was written out and left with the Pre- 

 mier, and we hope it will be the means of 

 bringing us some relief from the present in- 

 justice in freight charges, which is crippling 

 our industry and preventing the proper de- 

 velopment of the fruit industry : 



" The request for a systematic readjust- 

 ment of the railway freight rates now 

 charged in this country is based upon these 

 general statements : 



" I. Rates on short hauls within Canadian 



territory are in many cases so high as to be 

 practically prohibitory. 



" 2. Rates on long hauls also within Cana- 

 dian territory do not in many cases bear fair 

 proportion either to the cost or value of the 

 service rendered. 



" 3. Rates on local Canadian traffic are in 

 many cases much higher than rates under 

 similar conditions on local traffic in the 

 United States. 



" 4. On traffic originating in the United 

 States and carried over Canadian lines to the 

 seaboard, the rates are in numerous instan- 

 ces not only relatively but actually lower 

 than the rate imposed on Canadian produce 

 carried over the same lines but for a shorter 

 distance." 



GRAFTING APPLE ON THORN 



A. K. GOODMAN, 



SECRETARY CAYUf.A HnRTrClI.TLTR AL SOCIETY. 



I HAVE made several attempts at graft- 

 apple and pear scions on the comir.on 

 thorn with marked success. Following the 

 directions given in the Canadian Horti- 

 culturist as to the preparation of the graft- 

 ing wax, I adopted this method. Scions 

 with two buds were taken in the spring just 

 before the trees burst into leaf; the thorn 

 was then cut off with a saw to within a foot 

 of the ground; a slit was made in the top 

 and held open by a wedge, the scion cut in a 

 reverse manner and inserted so that the 

 space between the inner bark and wood of 

 each exactly met and formed an unob- 

 structed avenue for the circulation of the 

 sap of the stock through the scion ; the junc- 

 tion was then covered with the grafting wax 

 and covered with rough canvas and tied until 

 the wound was healed. The photograph 

 shows the graft of an apple (Northern Spy) 

 on thorn, four scions, with its growth of 



three feet and 

 over at the end 

 of the first sea- 

 son, before 

 pruning. The 

 pear grafts made 

 an equally vig- 

 orous growth, 

 while the second 

 season the re- 

 sults were quite 

 as good. 



Grafting 

 Wax is made by 

 melting together 

 2 lbs. resin, ^ 

 lb. beeswax and 

 Ya lb. of tal- 

 low. 



Fig. 2572. Apple Graft on 

 Thorn. 



