NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
But it has an inadequate root service, and 
when it comes to bearing on its own stock, it 
soon exhausts itself and becomes unable to 
support the top; it gradually produces less 
and less and of a steadily deteriorating quality. 
What is to be done? Why, simply give it a 
new foundation upon which to build. The 
almond grows very rapidly, several times as 
fast as the prune. Graft the prune upon 
the almond when the almond has its root 
system established, say at five years of age, 
and let the almond do the hard work. See 
how the almond will send the prune bounding 
forward! It gives the prune its needed basic 
supply of food, and so the prune has nothing 
to do but to go onward, bearing abundantly. 
“ There are certain trees that are hustlers,— 
strong, vigorous, fast-growing, self-reliant, 
powerful to resist untoward circumstances. 
These must be made to help their weaker 
brethren, to give them better commercial 
qualities. Take it in the line of a walnut bred 
for fuel, to say nothing of lumber for manufac- 
ture. Suppose a man buys a walnut tree large 
enough to set out and pays fifty cents for it, and 
in ten years it will produce ten cords of wood 
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