50 SUCCESSFUL FRUIT CULTURE 



tallow; or, in place of the tallow, one-fourth as much 

 linseed oil. The mixture should be allowed to become 

 slightly cool, when it may be turned out into water and 

 then "worked^' or drawn until it is tough and plastic. 

 If grafting is to be done in cool weather more tallow 

 may be used, or if in hot weather, more rosin is desirable. 



2. 1 pound tallow. 



1 pound beeswax. 

 1-4 pound rosin. 



3. 1 pound tallow. 



2 pounds beeswax. 

 4 pounds rosin. 



iTse melted with brush. Luther Burbank's formula. 



4. 1 pound tallow. 



2 pounds beeswax. 

 4 pounds rosin. 

 2 ounces alcohol. 



The writer has found a very hard wax, softened 

 with alcohol, Formula 4, so as to be applied with a putty 

 knife, a great convenience. In the Formulas 1 and 2 

 if double the amount of rosin is used, and when a little 

 cooled, so as not to ignite the alcohol, about an ounce 

 of the latter is added, it will keep the wax plastic and 

 it can be very quickly applied with the putty knife. 



The cions should be cut some time before the 

 work of grafting is to be done, some nurserymen pre- 

 ferring to have them cut before freezing much in the 

 early winter, but unless one has a good place to store 

 them more injury may result while being kept than 

 if they remained on the tree. Cions of apples and 

 pears may be cut only a few days before the work is 

 to be done. The best place in which to keep cions is 

 in moist sawdust in an icehouse. It is the practice of 

 eome of our best nurserymen to tie them in bundles^ 

 wrap them in sawdust covered with burlap, let them 



