CHAPTER VI. 

 Propagation of Fruit Trees. 



Nothing is so simple as the propagation of fruit trees in 

 Japan. The familiar methods of grafting or cutting fruit 

 trees are only one or two and performed with highest skill, 

 without seeking after many ingenious modes of foreign origin. 

 Our forefathers had known the art of grafting, cutting, layer- 

 ing and the like, as practised in Europe and America. 



Only the art of budding being entirely unknown has re- 

 mained for us to acquire . With the introduction of western 

 civilization it was introduced among us. It has spread through- 

 out the country with successful results everywhere. Our fruit 

 growers acknowledge its merit through experience but being 

 highly skilled by their ordinary methods of grafting they do 

 not come to rely upon the ingenious methods of budding as is 

 done in the West, except in the case of peaches and nectarines. 

 These two fruit trees being quite stable in the striking per- 

 centage attained by our common methods of grafting, even if 

 by most skillful hands they became used gradually to adopt 

 budding in recent years. 



The popular methods widely used among our nurserymen 

 and growers are methods of grafting, while by seeds, and by 

 cuttings, stocks are raised. Among methods of grafting, the 

 following are most in use : — 



1. Kiritsugi. Similar to the Crown Grafting of Americans. 



2. Inarching or Grafting by approach. (Yobi-tsugi) 



3. Splice Grafting. (Sogi-tsugi) 



4. Side Grafting. (Hara-tsugi) 



5. Cleft Grafting. (Wari-tsugi) 



6. Cutting Grafting. (Sashi-tsugi) 



7. Root Grafting. (Ne-tsugi) 



