NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



But it has an • inadequate root service, and 

 when it comes to bearing on its own stock, it 

 soon exhausts itself and becomes unable to 

 support the top; it gradually produces less 

 and less and of a steadily deteriorating quality. 

 What is to be done ? Why, simply give it a 

 new foundation upon which to build. The 

 almond grows very rapidly, several times as 

 fast as the prune. Graft the prune upon 

 the almond when the almond has its root 

 system established, say at five years of age, 

 and let the almond do the hard work. See 

 how the almond will send the prune bounding 

 forward I It gives the prune its needed basic 

 supply of food, and so the prune has nothing 

 to do but to go onward, bearing abundantly. 

 " There are certain trees that are hustlers, — 

 strong, vigorous, fast-growing, self-reliant, 

 powerful to resist untoward circumstances. 

 These must be made to help their weaker 

 brethren, to give them better commercial 

 qualities. Take it in the line of a walnut bred 

 for fuel, to say nothing of lumber for manufac- 

 ture. Suppose a man buys a walnut tree large 

 enough to set out and pays fifty cents for it, and 

 in ten years it will produce ten cords of wood 



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