MODERN 

 PROPAGATION OF TREE FRUITS 



CHAPTER I 

 SEED FOR PROPAGATION 



PRACTICALLY all of our more common varieties of 

 fruit do not " come true to seed/' hence the usual methods 

 of budding and grafting have to be resorted to in order to 

 perpetuate standard varieties. Some few of our fruits 

 can be grown from cuttings, some do best by budding, 

 while others are usually grafted. No particular method 

 is necessary or vital to each kind of fruit, but the various 

 operations now employed are the result or outgrowth of 

 efforts to economize in propagation. 



From the standpoint of the practical orchardist the 

 growing of nursery stock is usually left to companies or 

 independent concerns which make that branch of horti- 

 culture their chief business. The vast number of new 

 orchards now set every year make the growing of nursery 

 stock of more than passing interest, and it is becoming 

 the business of up-to-date orchard men to look deeper and 

 deeper into the " why " and " how " of propagation. 

 While it may seldom be feasible for an orchardman to grow 



