HOME PROJECT 239 



4. Visit an apple orchard and collect twenty-five scions. 

 Tie them into a bundle, and label with name of the variety, 

 the date, and the collector's name. Pack away in a cool place 

 in damp sand. 



5. Collect the same number of bud sticks from peach trees. 

 Label and store as in previous exercise. 



6. The teacher should collect a number of willow sticks 

 three eighths to half an inch in diameter sometime previous to 

 this exercise and place them in a pail of water in a warm room 

 to have them in such condition that the bark will slip readily 

 for budding. With the peach bud sticks of the previous exer- 

 cise at hand and the willow sticks as stocks the students should 

 perform the operation of budding, learning the proper method 

 of cutting the buds, making the incision, inserting the bud, 

 and tying the same. 



7. Collect a number of pieces of apple limbs one and a half 

 to two inches thick and a foot or more long. Using these as 

 stocks and with the apple scions previously collected each 

 student should perform the operation of cleft grafting, until 

 each becomes proficient. 



8. Visit a neighboring orchard and select the branches that 

 should be grafted in top- working the trees. Perform the work 

 if possible. 



HOME PROJECT 



Plant about a hundred peach, apple, or plum seeds in the 

 spring, and bud them at the proper time with standard varie- 

 ties. Keep an accurate record in notebook of the date, method, 

 and time spent in performing each detail of the work. Also 

 note the time of sprouting after seeding, the number of seedling 

 trees, and the number of buds successfully grafted. 



