MOUNT ARBOR NURSERIES, SHENANDOAH, IOWA 
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ROOT GRAFTS — Continued 
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 Seedling. We recommend a strong branched Seedling as it will us- 
ually give the best results. One customer advises his Whole Root Grafts put 
up on heavy branched Seedlings made 8 to 12 inches more growth than the 
Piece Root Grafts under the same conditions. 
Grafts should be planted at the earliest date in the Spring the season 
will permit, 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 pre- 
ferred) 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, 
conducted extensive experiments in his "field studios of the crown gall and 
hairy root of the Apple Tree," (See Bulletin No. 186 Bureau of Plant Indus- 
try) and according to his experiments there was a difference in precentage of 
crown gall of nineteen per cent, in favor of the continuous thread wrapping; 
aside from an increase in the stand of 10.2 per cent. 
PRICES OF GRAFTS IN ASSORTMENT 
per 1000 
Apple and Crab, No. 1 Piece Root, 1000 to 5000 $5 00 
5000 and up 4 00 
■' Whole " 1000 to 5000 8 00 
5000 and up 7 00 
Pear, No. 1, Piece Root 8 00 
" Whole " 12 00 
SAMPLES SENT ON APPLICATION 
Prices are for 100 or multiples of 100 of a variety. 
PRICE AND QUALITY OF GRAFTS 
It may be possiV le to buy Grafts at lower prices than we are offering, 
but the cheapest grafts are not always the most profitable to plant. Our 
prices are as low as grafts can be made by competent workmen, in a thorough 
manner from the best of material, and niachi.'ie wrapped. It never pays to 
sacrifice quality for cheapness. The cost of the Grafts is a small item com- 
pared with the final cost of the trees when matured for the orchard. 
