NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
lecting a fruit upon which to work. Experi- 
ments may, however, develop some quite 
interesting results if the effort is made to 
produce a fruit which will be hardier than any 
grown in one’s locality, thus adding, if success- 
ful, a new feature of value. 
By the end of the first season the young 
trees should be large enough for grafting 
wood. The work of grafting should begin 
when the spring is first coming or just before 
the buds are swelling. The tiny branches of 
the young tree to be grafted should be cut up 
into pieces about two inches long, with two or 
three buds on each, and then grafted in the 
manner noted above. 
In grafting, care must be taken that seed 
fruits be grafted upon trees bearing seed 
fruits, pit fruit upon pit fruits. For example, 
it will not do to graft a plum upon an apple 
tree, but upon another plum tree or upon an 
apricot, almond or peach; an apple graft upon 
an apple tree, and so on. 
As indicated in Mr. Burbank’s own work, 
the larger the number of seeds sown the 
greater the chances of success. Here, as in the 
case of flowers, Mr. Burbank points out the 
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