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PROPAGATING FRXnT PLANTS 



it is a one-year-old whip and may be sold as such, or it may 

 be headed back to develop side branches and retained another 

 year in the nursery row, being sold as a two-year-old tree. 



{Md. Exp. Sta.) 



Fig. 146. Whip grafting young orchard trees, (a) Whip grafts after one 

 season's growth, {b) A, the waxed string was not removed at the proper 

 time resulting in a weak union and partial girdling. B and C, good 

 unions. The side branches above B hasten the healing process. 



Own rooted trees are trees that have been grafted onto 

 pieces of roots, using an unusually long cion. The graft is set 

 deeply enough so that roots develop from the lower buds of 



