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grafted, allowed to remain in position until the follow- 

 ing season, and then taken up entire or with roots 

 enough to insure future growth. The same or a simi- 

 lar process may be practiced to propagate a choice vari- 

 ety of the hickory, and a mere severing of the roots will 

 insure the production of suckers from near the severed 

 end, as shown in Fig. 69. 



In grafting isolated stocks in this way, a small or 

 large stake should be placed by the side of each, to indi- 





FIG. 69. SPROUTS FROM SEVERED HICKORY ROOTS. 



cate their position, and also protect them from being 

 trampled upon. I make this suggestion because, in my 

 own experience, it has often proved successful with va- 

 rious kinds of hard-wooded trees and shrubs that failed 

 when grafted in the spring. Here in the North it is 

 rather difficult, as well as expensive, to protect cions set 

 in the open ground in the fall ; but in the South it is 



