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STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. 



out to admit air and light, but with careful study as to wood 

 required for crops. of the two following years. The lower and 

 drooping branches are allowed to grow downward, even if they 

 touch the ground, for these branches are the most fruitful, and 

 more easily reached during harvest time, thereby facilitating 

 gathering. 



GKAFTING AND BUDDING. 



The olive is grafted and budded very successfully, during 

 the different periods of growth. The purpose and action of the 

 graft and bud are: 



(a) To multiply the varieties 

 selected on trees already consti- 

 tuted or on vigorous subjects; 



(b) To further the wild or semi- 

 wild stocks; 



(c) To excite the development 

 of the branches, blossoms, and 

 fruits on the parts of the plant 

 lacking them ; 



(d) To reinvigorate ailing trees 

 by grafting or budding them with 

 others of greater fertility, and to 

 make others more resistant to 

 frosts by grafting them with 

 hardier sorts. 



Budding or grafting exercises 

 an influence in several ways: 

 On the stature and durability 

 of the tree, on its fruitfulness, 

 on the size and flavor of its fruits, 

 and on the precocity of fructification. It also modifies its 

 development and sometimes also its duration, making it larger 

 or smaller, long or short lived. 



An old olive tree grafted over; grafts 

 growing. 



