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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February. 19] 3 



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Bridge Grafting for Girdled Trees 



A GIRDLED tree need not necessarily be 

 grubbed out. When one considers the time 

 it takes for a tree to grow it would seem that in 

 almost every instance it were worth at least an 

 attempt at preservation. I have saved a number 

 of girdled apple trees by bridge grafting the girdles. 



Just before the buds began to swell, twigs a 

 quarter of an inch in diameter or less were cut from 

 the tops of the trees 

 and made several 

 inches longer than the 

 width of the girdle. 

 The twigs were then 

 sharpened to a wedge 

 at each end. A longi- 

 tudinal incision was 

 made in the bark 

 above and below the 

 girdle, into which the 

 wedge-shaped ends 

 were inserted in such 

 a manner that the 

 spring of the twig as it 

 arched over the girdle 

 helped to keep it in 

 place. We were careful 

 to have all the buds 

 point upward so that 

 the sap, in flowing 

 through the twigs, 

 might take its natural 

 course. 



Some of the bridges 

 (for such we must con- 

 sider the twigs here 

 used) were inserted in 

 a slightly different 

 manner. The cuts 

 above and below the 

 girdle were made 

 transversely and then 

 the sharpened ends of 

 the twigs pressed into 

 these incisions so that 

 the twigs themselves 

 lay flat against the 



trunk. The advantage of this method is that the 

 twigs are less likely to be dislodged by a strong 

 wind. Pruning wax was used to protect the union 

 between the grafts and the bark. 



The philosophy of the thing is simple. The 

 bridges carry the sap across the gap while the cam- 

 bium layer tends to grow together over the girdle. 

 Where the twigs are pressed flat against the trunk 

 they can finally be incorporated, as it were, into 

 the body of the trunk which is manifestly impossible 

 where the twigs are arched. 



North Dakota. C. L. Meller. 



Trie sap flows through 

 the twigs and keeps the 

 tree flourishing 



The tree was completely girdled, but bridge grafting 

 saved it. and it bears good crops 



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