HOW MAY I DO IT, TOO;—GRAFTING 
sistency. A little more linseed oil may at 
any time be added, if the wax gets too hard. 
In order to keep well from season to season, 
Mr. Burbank says the wax should be a little 
harder than ordinary chewing-gum. 
When one has an estate of some consider- 
able size and wishes to carry on the work of 
growing new kinds of fruit on a larger scale, 
results may be easily attained far-reaching in 
their extent and with still larger opportunities 
for the production of a fruit of unique 
character. To show somewhat the possibilities 
of reproduction of grafts, Mr. Burbank says 
that a single tree two years old, when cut up 
into grafts, will produce the following season 
from three to four thousand buds. If each 
one of the buds from these four thousand 
would produce its full quota, so that it would 
be possible to keep up the progression, at 
the end of the third season the single bud 
would have become parent to over two 
hundred and fifty billions of trees. 
Very little pollenating of the flowers of the 
fruit trees is now done by Mr. Burbank 
because he has made so very many combina- 
tions and has such a vast number of different 
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