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. 

 This may be regulated, of course, at will. Mr. 

 Burbank says the wax must be a good deal 

 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 char- 

 acter. 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 in that same 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 7 

 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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