Top-working Fruit Trees 



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not care to discourage a practice most successfully fol- 

 lowed by some growers, but will say that only strong- 

 growing young trees under the most favorable conditions 

 are worthy of such an attempt at renewal. 



FIG. 48. Transcendent Crab Grafted to Winesap. 



Various modes of graftage may be employed in chang- 

 ing over the top of the old trees. Some method of cion- 

 grafting is generally used, although it is not uncommon, in 



