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seldom give us fruit like themselves because the 

 bees and insects have mixed the pollen of many 

 varieties ; so, if we have a kind of fruit we like very 

 much, we take a branch of that tree and fasten it 

 into another tree. It is placed carefully and bound 

 tightly. The cut heals over, then the roots send 

 sap to the new branch and it has fruit just like its 

 mother tree, not like the tree that is sending sap 

 to it. 



It is queer that the sap does not change the branch 

 but very fortunate for us that it is so. Suppose we 

 want a dwarf Winesap Apple. The nurseryman 

 takes a branch from a good Winesap tree that 

 bears fine fruit and fastens this ( or grafts as we call 

 it) to a seedling dwarf wild apple which he knows 

 will never grow tall. The "scion," as the grafted 

 branch is called, is fastened to the seedling a few 

 inches from the root, and as the tree grows you 

 hardly notice where they were joined. The branch 

 of the Winesap soon knows it is growing on a dwarf 

 root and it says to itself : 



"Goodness me, I am never going to be big, be- 

 cause this root does not send me enough sap to make 

 me grow tall, so I will have to hurry up and make 

 fruit for I am not sure just what this root is going 

 to do. And, goodness me! If I am going to be 



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