PROPAGATION OF TREES AND PLANTS 



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growth, and thus cause a more perfect union of the 

 bud with the stock. After the stock is cut off in the 

 spring, the bud grows very rapidly, and the trees are 

 often large enough for transplanting to the orchard 

 at one year from the bud. 



PROPAGATION OF THE QUINCE 



The quince is propagated by cuttings, by layers, by 

 stools and by root grafts, but as the two former methods 

 are rather difficult, the last two are the ones most used. 



Root Graft — For ^ 



this purpose small JL. L 



pieces of apple roots are \ja VTl>r# ' 



used; the trimmings of 

 the seedlings are taken 

 and cut into lengths of 

 three or four inches, 

 each one to be grafted 

 on a cion six to eight 

 inches long, of the de- 

 sired variety, and are 

 then planted in the 

 same manner as the 

 apple root grafts de- 

 scribed on Page 186. The apple root supplies moisture 

 and a little food material until roots are formed on the 

 cion, when it fails to grow more, and we have the quince 

 on its own root. 



Where only a few trees are desired they may be 

 grown by what is called the "stooP method. This con- 

 sists in first cutting a small, young tree down to within 

 four or five inches of the ground, and allowing it to 

 throw up new shoots that grow one season, as seen in 

 Figure 104. At the beginning of the second season a 

 mound of soil is made about this "stool" deep enough 

 to keep the base of the shoots moist all of the time 



Fig. 104— Quince Stool 



