HOW MAY I DO IT, TOO;— GRAFTING 



possibilities of producing something of surpas- 

 sing value to the world. Even in case the new 

 fruit created is not better than old fruits of 

 the same class, there is great satisfaction, as 

 with the flowers, in being able to present to a 

 friend a fruit which one has himself made ; 

 while there is before one the other possibility 

 of producing a fruit which is to revolutionize, 

 as many of his fruits are revolutionizing, the 

 production of the world. 



The seedlings could be transplanted from 

 their trench and allowed to grow to maturity 

 upon their own roots, but this would, as a rule, 

 take all the way from six to twenty years, 

 while by grafting them upon a mature tree 

 they may be hurried forward to fruitage in 

 two to four seasons. It would have been 

 impossible for Mr. Burbank to have reached 

 the results he has achieved if he had depended 

 upon first raising his seedlings to the period of 

 bearing fruit before determining their value. 

 He could not have accomplished the ends he 

 has reached in a thousand years. 



In the way of instruments Mr. Burbank 

 recommends to the amateur any good pruning- 

 knife of fine steel, a smaller knife like 



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