PROPAGATION BY BUDDING AND GRAFTING 141 



cion is any of the varieties of 

 Moms alba or M. rubra, as the 

 New American or Hicks, which 

 roots with difficulty from cuttings. 

 In this case, the buds have been 

 cut from the stock to prevent it 

 from suckering. 



Root-grafted vs. budded stock 



The relative merits 

 of budded and root- 

 grafted trees have been 

 strongly championed in 

 the past, on both sides. 

 The apple is the only 

 tree concerned in the 

 controversy in a large 

 way. After many years 

 of discussion and a con- 

 siderable number of in- 

 conclusive experiments, 

 it is fair to say that 

 the final results in or- 

 chard work show no rec- 

 ognizable differences. 

 Good orchards are pro- 

 duced by either kind 

 of stock. In the East, 

 the demand is for bud- 

 ded trees ; in the Middle **<>. 158 - G g root -g raft 

 West, probably nine- 

 tenths of the apple stock is root-grafted. Choice 

 FIG. 159. k v the planter (so far as choice exists) between 

 cutting^* 4). budded or whole-root grafts is probably mostly a 



