XVIII 



THE PROPAGATION OF FRUIT TREES 

 AND PLANTS 



While it may not generally be advisable for the 

 fruit grower to attempt to grow trees for his own 

 planting, in many cases it may be best and profitable 

 to do so, and it certainly will be of great advantage to 

 all to know how they are propagated, to enable them 

 to judge of the value of the trees they buy, and if one 

 can have well grown ones on his own place, ready to 

 transplant at just the right time, and in a perfectly 

 fresh condition, they will be much more sure to do well 

 than the average nursery trees. 



In this chapter I shall attempt to give only the 

 practice of the most reliable nurseries, so illustrated 

 that with a little practice the intelligent and energetic 

 man may grow good trees for his own planting, and 

 perhaps supply some to his neighbors. The boys and 

 girls should become interested in this work, in which 

 they might soon become skillful, and perhaps lay the 

 foundation for the establishment of the nursery business 

 in sections not now supplied with home grown trees. 



THE PROPAGATION OF THE APPLE 



None of the varieties of the apple reproduce the 

 same kind from seed. Thus there has never been but 

 one Baldwin apple tree grown from seed; all of the 

 trees of this variety, except the first one, that came 

 from seed, have been grown by inserting buds or cions 



