LUTHER BURBANK 



high, after the method used with geraniums and 

 various other garden plants. 



The better varieties of loquat can be grafted 

 during January and February. 



Grafting may be done by the "cleft" method 

 or any other of the usual methods already de- 

 scribed. It is well to remove most of the leaves 

 from the cion, leaving a cluster of the tip bud 

 leaves. Wax should be applied freely, and a 

 paper sack tied tightly over the graft and stock 

 to protect it from drying winds. Later the sack 

 may be partially opened, and at last removed. 



The large number of seedling loquats in my 

 orchard were grown from one tree, bearing giant 

 fruit, imported from Japan. The seedlings vary 

 decidedly in growth and in foliage. As these come 

 into bearing they may be expected to produce new 

 varieties of loquats, some of which will combine 

 size, quality, rapid growth, and productiveness. 

 My first seedlings fruited at about the age of three 

 years from seed, some not until the fourth year. 



The better varieties of the loquat are quite 

 often grafted or budded on common quince stock, 

 on which the trees thrive as well apparently, as if 

 on their own roots. This would indicate the pos- 

 sibility (but not necessarily the probability) of 

 crossing the loquat and the quince. 



So far as my experience indicates, the loquat 



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