Propagation and Care of Plants 



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U. JS. D. A. 



FIG. 51. A strawberry plant that was set out in the spring at Osage, Iowa, 

 photographed in the middle of July. Note the runners in bloom. 



a bud instead of a small branch is grafted into another 

 tree or shrub, the process is called " budding " (Fig. 52). 

 In cither case the fruit produced on the branches grow- 

 ing out of the graft will be exactly the same as the fruit 

 of the tree from which the graft was taken. In fact, 

 the " scion," the new growth from the point at which 

 the graft was made, is but a continuation of the original 

 tree from which the scion was taken, not a new tree 

 as is one raised from a seed. Seedling fruit may or may 

 not be good, but we can know the quality of grafted 

 fruit beforehand. This was noted as an advantage in 

 the use of cuttings. But in grafting, a double advan- HOW scion 

 tage can be secured, since the root which is to support 

 the tree may also be selected. Since this is so, nursery- 

 men try to graft the best fruit-bearing branches upon 



