70 FliUIT CULTURE. 



The following are a few strong-growing apples suitable 

 for use in re-grafting : 



Bramley's Seedling, Blenheim Orange, Ecklinville, 

 Golden Noble, Hawthornden (New,) Loddington, Lord 

 Derby, Lord Grosvenor, The Qneen, Warner's King, 

 Winter Queening, Tower of Glamis, Alfriston, Frogmore 

 Prolific, Worcester Pearmain, Professor. 



Care must be taken to untie the graft before damage 

 is done, as such trees having superabundant sap are apt 

 to swell very rapidly when the graft starts, which graft 

 will require some support for the first year or two to pre- 

 vent it from blowing out. This can easily be done by 

 tying a small stake to each branch and securing the graft 

 to it. Trees thus treated, if grafted with a good variety, 

 will often bear the second season, and in four years' time 

 make good progress, and I have seen them in some cases 

 bear bushels of fine fruit. It may also be mentioned 

 here, that in some cases where trees are considerably 

 cankered, this plan of re-grafting with a healthy, vigorous 

 variety, will give back new life, health, and vigour to the 

 tree. In the case of plums and cherries, re-graffcing will 

 not answer, the severe cutting back causing them to gum. 



Another condition in which trees are usually found in 

 old orchards, is one in which they are covered with moss 

 and lichen. The first care of the cultivator should be to 

 remove this. It may be done in the following manner. 

 Obtain fresh lime, which, when it is slaked sufficiently 

 to run into perfect dust, should be applied to the trees 

 as fresh and hot as possible, throwing it amongst the 

 branches upon a moist and damp day. When thus thrown 

 into the trees it will ascend in clouds, and the branches 

 and moss being wet, the dust will adhere to them, and it 

 will soon cause the moss to loosen and fall oft'. Or the 



