FRUIT TREE STOCKS- Continued 
Will exchange Apple Seedlings for Peach, Plum, Dwarf Pear, Gooseberries, 
Roses, Clematis and other ornamental stock. If interested advise what you 
can offer. Code Per 1000 
Japan Pear Seedlings, No. 1, 3-16 inch and up Immerse $ 7 00 
" " " No. 3 Impress 4 00 
Native Plum Seedlings, No. 1, 3-16 and up Impeach 14 00 
FRENCH FRUIT TREE STOCKS 
Code Per 1000 
Apple Seedlings, No. 1, 5 to 7 mm, branched Idiom 5 00 
Cherry Mahaleb, No. 1, 5 to 8 mm Ignite 7 50 
No. 2, 3 to 5 mm Ignoble 5 00 
Mazzard, No. 1, 5 to 8 mm Illegal 12 00 
No. 2, 3 to 5 mm Illume 6 00 
Plum, Myrobolan, No 2, 3 to 5 mm Impassive 7 00 
Pear, extra heavy, 7 to 12 mm, branched Ire 11 00 
" No. 1, 5 to 7 mm, branched Image 8 00 
" No. 2, 3 to 5 mm, branched Imbibe 5 00 
Quince Stocks, extra heavy, 7 to 12 mm Imperial 11 00 
No. 1. 5 to 7 mm Imply 7 50 
ROOT GRAFTS 
Ever since the Mount Arbor Nurseries were established in 1875, growing Apple 
Seedlings, Apple Trees and making Apple Grafts for the trade and our own planting 
has been one of our specialties. For this work we employ only skilled labor and 
select the best of material. We use Orchard Scions as far as possible and vigorous 
healthy Seedlings, carefully selected when grading our blocs of Seedlings. 
All Grafts are carefully assorted and only the best of material used in orders, so 
that customers can depend on getting a first-class article. Orders should be placed 
early to procure the best selection of varieties and to give the Grafts ample time to 
callous before shipment. After our Grafts are made they are tied in bundles of 100, 
each bunch carefully labeled and packed away to callous. 
Our Piece-Root Grafts are made with a six-inch Scion and three and one-half 
inch Root, the same style that we make largely for our own planting. For Whole- 
Root Grafts we use the entire Seedling, either a straight or branched root as the 
customer may select. Any style of Graft made to order. 
WHOLE ROOT GRAFTS 
Some of our customers get best results from planting Whole Root Grafts, which 
are made with a Scion about six inches in length and a branched or straight Seed- 
ling. We recommend a strong branched Seedling as it will usually give the best re- 
sults. One customer advises his Whole Root Grafts put up on heavy branched Seed- 
lings made 8 to 12 inches more growth than the Piece Root Grafts under the same 
conditions. 
Grafts should be planted at ths earliest date in the Spring the season will per- 
mit, in rows about three and one-half feet apart and seven to eight inches apart 
in the row. The ground should be plowed deep (in the fall preferred) and well 
prepared before planting. 
Machine Wrapped Grafts 
We have installed five Graft Wrapping Machines run with electric motor for 
wrapping Grafts. We have been able to do much better wrapping of the union of 
the Grafts and are confident the continuous machine wrapping will materially reduce 
the percentage of crown gall, which frequently develops about the union of root 
and Scion in grafted Apple Trees. 
George G. Hedgcock, Pathologist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, con- 
ducted extensive experiments in his "field studies of the crown gall and hairy root 
of the Apple I'ree, " (See Bulletin No. 186 Bureau of Plant Industry) and accord- 
ing to his experiments there was a difference in percentage of crown gall of nine- 
teen per cent, in favor of the continuous thread wrapping; aside from an increase 
in the stand of 10.2 per cent. 
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