CHAPTER II 



GRAFTING 



A REVIEW of the history and literature of tree 

 grafting would seem to indicate that very little has 

 been added to our knowledge of the subject for more 

 than a century. Authors have complimented other 

 authors by accepting their views. They have de- 

 scribed clever variations in technique but without 

 adding new principles in the abstract. In this chap- 

 ter will be found material which promises to revo- 

 lutionize the whole subject. At the beginning of 

 the twentieth century even so famous a grafter as 

 Mr. Jackson Dawson, of the Arnold Arboretum, had 

 failed with the hickories excepting with a few small 

 specimens grafted under hothouse conditions. At 

 the present time, twenty years later, almost any 

 bright youth may now graft hickory trees in the 

 open almost as readily as apple trees are propagated. 

 Yesterday scions for the coming season's work were 

 cut and stored while buds of the cuttings were dor- 

 mant. To-day we may cut a scion directly from one 

 tree and place it immediately in another tree at al- 

 most any time during the summer in temperate cli- 

 mates. Perhaps it may be well to add to our nomen- 



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