The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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GRAFTING SEEDLING APPLES. 



29. Sir, — I have a lot of seedling apples ; 

 should they be grafted in the ground or 

 above, and is the wood of last year's growth 

 old enough to use as scions ? — T.A.G. 



You may graft below on the root, or on 

 the trunk above the ground. The former 

 place is usual with seedlings, for then the 

 splice is protected by the earth. 



Nurserymen usually pull up seedling apple 

 trees at the age of one or two years, or as 

 soon as they reach a diameter of about three- 

 eighths of an inch, pack them in sawdust in 

 the Fall, and leave them in the cellar until 

 they are ready to graft them. This is 

 done in a grafting shop, indoors, and they 

 are then packed away again in the same way 

 until planting out time. It is rather late 

 now to take them up, so, unless you splice- 

 graft them at the surface of the ground, you 

 will need to wait till Fall. Wood of one 

 yeaVs growth is just the right age to use for 

 scions. 



HARDINESS OF THE PRINCESS 

 LOUISE. 



30. Sir,- Please say in the next Horti- 

 culturist, if the apple tree Princess Louise 

 is hardy enough for our latitude, forty-five 

 and a half : I do not find a word about its 

 hardiness in your journal.— L. Pasche, 

 Bryson Que. 



We do not know. It was to find out this 

 that it was placed upon the list for distribu- 

 tion. It originated at Maplehurst, on the 

 north side of what is known as the Niagara 

 Escarpment, and is a seedling of the 

 Fameuse ; so that it is presumed to be as 

 hardy as that variety. 



SPRAYING OUTFITS. 



31. Sir, — Please say what kind of a spray- 

 ing outfit you would recommend? — A Sub- 

 scriber. 



In reply to a good many inquiries about 



outfits for spraying trees, we here give a cut 

 furnished us by Messrs. Johnson & Stokes of 

 Philadelphia, representing the perfection 



outfit, which is recommended as being the 

 best hand-power for the purpose, and cap- 

 able of spraying one hundred trees per hour. 

 This pump is fitted with ten feet of discharge 

 hose and a graduating spray nozzle, the 

 above being attached to the pump at the spout 

 " A ". At the aperture " B," is attached 



Fig. 47. 



three feet of return hose, at the lower end 

 of which is connected a discharge pipe, so 

 that at every stroke of the pump, a small 

 part of the liquid is re-discharged into the 

 tank near the bottom of the suction pipe, 

 which keeps the water and poison well 

 mixed. The pump has a three-inch cylinder, 

 and is furnished with an iron suction pipe, 

 ready to mount on a barrel. This outfit com- 

 plete without the barrel, can be had for 

 ten dollars. 



GRAFTING THE RUSSIAN APRICOT. 



32. Sir,— Can a Russian apricot be grafted 

 on a plum stock ? — A.C., Brantford. 



Stone fruits are not usually propagated 



