Raising Trees from Seeds. 235 



Spy), and am top -grafting them with cions from 

 trees which please me and which I know to have 

 been productive during many years. Time will dis- 

 cover if the effort is worth the while, but unless 

 all analogies fail, the outcome must be to my 

 profit."* 



If one is to plant hardy stocks and then work 

 them over, he should usually plan to graft or bud 

 them after they have stood in the orchard one 

 year. Good results sometimes follow grafting in the 

 very year in which the stock is set, but this is the 

 exception. Some persons have proposed to sow 

 seeds in the very spot where the trees are to 

 stand, and thereby to raise stocks for top -working 

 without transplanting them, but the labor and un- 

 certainty of the method make it impracticable. It 

 is cheaper to grow trees in the nursery row the 

 same as it is cheaper to buy trees of a nursery- 

 man than to attempt to grow them and the trees 

 also receive better care. Again, seedlings vary, and 

 the poor and weak ones should be discarded the 

 same as they are by the budder in the nursery 

 row who finds them to be too small or too 

 scrawnj r to bud. Well -grown stock of a strong- 

 growing variety usually gives more uniform results 

 than a lot of home-grown seedlings can. 



Buying the trees. It is best, when it can be done, 

 to order trees late in summer or early in the fall, if 



*L. H. Bailey, Bull. 102, Cornell Exp. Sta. See, also, "Survival of the 

 nHkf." pp. 249, 250. 



