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PLANT PROPAGATION 



branch and to make them superior to untransplanted 

 stock, both for budding and grafting. Many American 

 nurserymen consider Japanese stocks stronger than 

 French ones, but French nurserymen won't use them 

 because fruit growers there are prejudiced against them. 

 Some pear seed, chiefly from Kieffer trees, is collected in 

 Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey canneries and used 



in the United States, but 

 nurserymen consider 

 seed from Japan to be 

 better. Though most of 

 the Japanese pear seed- 

 lings are imported from 

 Japan, some arrive from 

 Holland and France. 



258. Pear propagation. 

 Standard pears are 

 generally propagated by 

 whip grafting (305) on 

 whole stocks at the 

 crown. Only a small part 

 of the lower end of the 

 tap root is cut off. The 

 cion is shorter than in 

 most apple grafting 

 about four inches. Wax- 

 ing is necessary. When 

 this is done indoors, and 

 when the wood is fairly 

 warm, injury from the warm wax is avoided by dropping 

 the grafts as waxed into cold water, after which they are 

 made into bundles and stored like apple-root grafts. 

 Greater care is needed in planting because of their length. 

 Larger percentages of these grafts will grow than would 

 in the case of ordinary root grafts in which the loss is 

 counted at about 50 per cent. 



FIG. 165 BUNDLE OF WHOLE ROOT 

 GRAFTS 



These are about 9 inches long, the most 

 convenient length for handling 



