HOW MAY I DO IT, TOO; GRAFTING 



Many other kinds of grafts are in use by 

 horticulturists, but Mr. Burbank considers 

 these two quite sufficient. Budding, which is 

 the placing of the bud of the graft or cion 

 underneath the bark of the parent or host 

 tree, he very seldom uses. 



Some years since, a profound discussion was 

 carried on in England over grafting, the oppo- 

 nents of it claiming that it was always a make- 

 shift, often a fraud; that it was, in effect, only 

 a kind of adulteration; that any fruit tree that 

 would not succeed on its own roots should go 

 to the rubbish heap; that grafted trees are 

 coddled, while own - rooted ' trees are in all 

 ways infinitely better, healthier and longer- 

 lived. It seems quite enough to say in this 

 connection that the man who has carried on 

 the blending of tree and cion upon a scale of 

 greater extent than any other man finds graft- 

 ing not only eminently successful but impera- 

 tive. One single series of experiments carried 

 on for so many years and on so vast a scale as 

 Mr. Burbank's experiments is sufficient to dis- 

 prove many theories and to overturn many 

 conclusions. 



But there remains something else of still 



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