NOVEMBER: SECOND WEEK 299 



Increase Your Orchard by Grafting 



Have you as many varieties of fruit growing on your 

 orchard trees as you would like? and are all that are growing 

 perfectly satisfactory? If not, it is an easy matter to add 

 new varieties or substitute them for unsatisfactory ones, 

 without increasing the number of trees. The actual opera- 

 tion of grafting — or of budding, which is similar — is not 

 performed until early spring (next March or April), but it is 

 well to decide now what you would Uke to do in this line, 

 and provide yourself during the next month or so with 

 "whips" of the various varieties you may wish to add to 

 your collection. Right now, while the apple season is in its 

 height, is the time to "sample" the different kinds, and 

 make your selections — three bites of a good specimen will 

 tell you more about the eating quality of that particular 

 kind, as far as your taste is concerned, than pages of 

 catalogue or book descriptions and "acid," "sub-acid," 

 "mild," and "tart" adjectives. Whenever you sink your 

 teeth into an apple that particularly appeals to you, find out 

 what it is, and then put the name down in black and white. 

 Then find out, either from local growers or from your State 

 experiment station or county agent, which of the several 

 sorts you may have on your Kst will do well in your vicinity. 

 The "whips" or small branches of "buds" may then be 

 procured locally or ordered from a reliable nurserymen. 

 In the former case, bury them, carefully tagged, in the 

 cellar, or keep them in a cold, fairly moist place, such as an 

 ice-house, so they will remain dormant until you are ready 

 to use them. If ordering from a nurseryman, it will be more 

 convenient to have them reserved until you want them. 



Make a Rose Garden Now 



There is still time in November, before the ground freezes 

 hard, to prepare a rose garden for next spring's planting, 

 and if you intend to set out any roses next spring by all 

 means prepare the bed now. Of the thousands of roses set 



