INDEX 



Age of nursery trees as affected by 

 stock used, 158-159 



Bark budding, 68 

 Bark grafting, 103 

 Bench working stock, 87 

 Blighting of small seedlings, 27 

 Bridge grafting, 105 

 Budding or grafting best, 55 

 Budding nursery stock, 55 

 Budding practices, 55, 56, 57 

 After-treatment of budded 



stock, 64, 72 

 Bark budding, 68-70 

 Buds from bearing trees, 76 

 Collecting bud sticks, 76 

 Culture of budded stock, 72 

 Cutting buds, 62 

 Fruits generally budded, 57 

 Inserting the bud, 62 

 June or dormant budding, 61 

 Kinds of budding, 61 

 Operation, 57, 58 

 Practice in large nurseries, 66 

 Selecting buds, 74, 75 

 Shipping bud sticks, 77 

 Spraying budded stock, 74 

 Stripping the seedlings, 59 



Budding, tools used, 58 

 Twig budding, 67 



Callusing, 89, 115 

 Cions for grafting work, 107 

 Cleft grafting, 96 

 Counting nursery trees, 134 

 Cracking hard seed for germina- 

 tion, 29 



Cultivating seedlings, 44, 45 

 Culture of budded stock, 72, 130 

 Culture of seedlings, 42 

 Cuttings, 111 



Callusing bed for, 115 



Classification of, 112 



Fig, 121 



Fruits grown from, 112 



Grape, 118 



Heel, 121 



Kinds of, 116 



Mallet, 123 



Nurse root, 124 



Parts of plants used for, 112 



Principles involved in making, 

 113 



Root, 124 



Simple, 118 



Single-eye, 117 



Soft wood, 127 



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