June 



THE POMOLOGIST. 



73 



For the Western Pomologist. 



Propagation of the Cherry. 



The MoreUo for a Stock — Sprouting up — 

 Suggestions on Riming Seedli?ig Vlierries, 

 Numbering Qrapes, etc. 



Mark Millek, Dear Sir /-rlt is only by 

 adding " line upon line " according to order 

 that we prevail ou the trial even of that 

 which to us seemeth good, and it is there- 

 fore, that seeing the remarks of Mr. James 

 Mathews in the Pomologist for March, 

 relative to Morello stocks, for the working 

 on of better sorts of the cherry, that I desire 

 to strike that harp-striug just once again 

 and to say that his remarks relative to the 

 sprouting of the Morello are, I think, based 

 only on an experience with trees grown 

 from suckers. I know of many seedling 

 Morellos, and I do not know of more than 

 one or two such, that have thrown up suck- 

 ers or sprouts, and those were induced by 

 reason of a plow and cultivator being run 

 In and among them, and breaking of the 

 surface roots. Again, as the season of ripe 

 cherries is soon to be once more with us' 

 let me now suggest and urge Western fruits 

 growers to procure seed of some of the best 

 varieties, such as Louis Phillip, Donna 

 Maria, Belle Magifique, Dauphine, etc., and 

 plant with a view to new and improved 

 hardy sorts, as well as for stocks on which 

 to work others. One more line, and that is. 

 do pray ask Mr. Mathews not send out 

 the grape he now calls " No. 13," and which 

 you have figured, without first applying a 

 name. We have already had so much of the 

 numbering business through Mr. Kogersthat 

 I think all are tired of it, and I respectfully 

 suggest a change. If a name be attached, 

 and afterward the variety prove identical 

 with another of Mr. Rogers', it would surely 

 and truly add to our list of synonyms, but 

 would not then make it any worse tlian 

 a number, while if it be a distinct sort, then 

 the applied name would attach and the 

 variety be very unlikely to obtain any 

 synonym. 



P. K. Elliott, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Fig. 1. 



Fig. 3. 



Fig. 2. 



Fruit Prospects in Lincoln County, Kansas. 



Ed. Pomologist: — We have suffered in 

 agriculture for want of rain; hadafineshi^w- 

 er the 23d ; vegetation pushing rapidly now ; 

 the high winds on the 9th and 10th inst. done 

 considerable damage to fruit — especially 

 grapes. Prospect for apples good ; peach 

 aud cherry light ; black and strawberries full 

 crop, also Doolittle raspberries; Philadel- 

 phia and purple cane killed to the ground by 

 the winter. 



Adams, Oarnett, Kan., May 24, 1870. 



Cr.Msberkies in Wisconsin. — Berlin 

 Wisconsin, appears to be the center of a 

 large fruit trade. The apple crop of 1869, 

 within a radius of si.ic or eight miles of the 

 town, is estimated at fullv 7,000 bushels.— 

 Between three and four thousand barrels of 

 cranberries were also shipped from that 

 point. 



EXPLANATION OF ILLUSTBATIONS. 



Fig. I. Manner of splitting stock, showing knife drove full depth. 



Fig. 2. A graft natural size and length sloped ready to insert. 



Fig. 3. Graft inserted and the earth removed. B to C showing the outer bark taken 



off the stock and cion as far as inserted; D showing the earth line when niled 



up and completed. 



Grafting the Grape. 



NUMBER TWO. 



In our former article we gave our method 

 of planting the grape in early spring. 

 We shall now give other reasons It 

 sometimes happens that we are not ready to 

 graft in early spring, by delay in procuring 

 scions by mail, or otherwise, until the vines 

 have commenced to bleed too freely. 



Save your scions by putting them away in 

 some cold place, like an ice-house, aud keep- 

 ing them there until ready, so as to keep the 

 buds from bursting. 



Then, after your vines have made growth, 

 aud the leaves are about two inches in 

 diameter, cut them below the surface of the 

 ground, and graft them as before mentioned, 

 and treat in like manner. Vines so grafted 

 will not make the same growth as in early 

 spring, but it is much better than to wait 

 until another season. 



If your early spring grafts do not grow, 

 the stocks will throw up numerous sprouts 

 or suckers ; let one or two sprouts grow, and 

 keep all the others oflT. 1 hese sprouts you 

 may graft in Juue or July with green grape 

 wood, fresh cut from your growing vines, in 

 the following manner : Select short -jointed 

 growing wood of any size, when the Imds 

 are just about bursting from the axes of the 

 leaves, .strip off the leaves immediately, aud 

 cut your scions of one or more buds in 

 length, aud graft the suckers above men- 

 tioned under the ground, as previously 

 described, except do not take off the bark. 

 You may split or cut the .stock clear through, 



as in common cleft grafting. Tie loosely, or 

 pack the earth up firmly and omit the tying ; 

 shade the grafts with a piece of board or 

 shingle stuck in the ground, to prevent rapid 

 evaporation. These grafts require the same 

 kind of after treatment as the other spoken 

 of 



This method of grafting the grape we have 

 not heard described, but we have tried it, 

 and know it will succeed. Yet it requires 

 some skill and a sharp knife to cut the scion 

 and split the stock. 



We consider it a valuable method of 

 increasing our stock of new varieties. To 

 avail ourselves of this method of grafting 

 we will have to prepare the stocks by cutting 

 them oft' below the ground in earl^^ spring 

 to get your suckers to graft. 



We will have sometimes to wait with 

 patience for our grafts to grow, as they are 

 often very slow at starting. You can at any 

 time dig down and examine the grafts and 

 see if they are alive ; granulation is slow at 

 commencing, and will take place along the 

 edge of the stock and graft, where they meet, 

 and the outside bark prevents or delays it. 

 It is on that account and the proper adjust- 

 ment of the graft, that we remove it on the 

 mature cane and graft, but ou the green wood 

 it would be an injury. This you can test for 

 yourself by a trial, and cuttings which will 

 hardly grow can lie made to do so Ijy 

 removing the bark from the lower ends. The 

 soaking, heeling in, and the various methods 

 of cutting in the fall, storing away the grape 

 cutting to prepare them for crowing, can lie 

 more quickly accomplished iiy removing the 

 bark. Pall grafting, from trial we know not 

 to be advi.sable, and facts can be given to 

 .show it a lailure. We should like to hear 

 from those who have succeeded. — [Asst. Ed. 



