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high, after the method used with geraniums and 
various other garden plants. 
The better varieties of loquat can be grafted 
during January and February. 
Grafting may be done by the “cleft” method 
or any other of the usual methods already de- 
scribed. It is well to remove most of the leaves 
from the cion, leaving a cluster of the tip bud 
leaves. Wax should be applied freely, and a 
paper sack tied tightly over the graft and stock 
to protect it from drying winds. Later the sack 
may be partially opened, and at last removed. 
The large number of seedling loquats in my 
orchard were grown from one tree, bearing giant 
fruit, imported from Japan. The seedlings vary 
decidedly in growth and in foliage. As these come 
into bearing they may be expected to produce new 
varieties of loquats, some of which will combine 
size, quality, rapid growth, and productiveness. 
My first seedlings fruited at about the age of three 
years from seed, some not until the fourth year. 
The better varieties of the loquat are quite 
often grafted or budded on common quince stock, 
on which the trees thrive as well apparently, as if 
on their own roots. This would indicate the pos- 
sibility (but not necessarily the probability) of 
crossing the loquat and the quince. 
So far as my experience indicates, the loquat 
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