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Ruralisms 
“ INARCHING.” 
J. M .—In a recent newspaper article I 
f^und described a so-called “new method" 
of "inarching” to "make nature hurry up.” 
It is described as .follows, and 1 would like 
to know if it is a fake : 
"The inarch is accomplished in this way : 
The seedling is grown to the age of but 
three or four weeks. It is a weak little 
plant of but four or six leaves. Nature has 
stipulated that many years must pass be¬ 
fore it comes to maturity, blossoms and 
hears fruit. Under the inarch process this 
stripling is taken up with a ball of earth 
about its roots sufficient to maintain its 
life for a few weeks. The whole is trans¬ 
ferred to a stalwart, vigorous tree of a 
• kindred species. This tree may be two or 
three years old. Its roots are deep. It is 
supplying sustenance for a top that is a 
hundred times as large as the seedling. 
"This is known as the nurse tree. 'The 
outer bark is scraped from the side of the 
nurse tree a foot above the ground. The 
outer bark is likewise scraped from the 
seedling. The two wounds are hound to¬ 
gether with soft cloth bands. The ball of 
dirt on the root of the seedling is bound to 
the side of the nurse tree. In two or three 
weeks the plants have grown together. 
The dirt from the roots of the seedling may 
be removed. It is now drawing its vigor 
from the nurse tree. Eventually its roots 
are cut off smoothly below the point of 
union. The nurse tree has taken the little 
orphan plant unto Itself. 
"But this is not the end. After the 
union is thoroughly established the plant 
juggler cut the top off the great vigorous 
nurse tree. Then all the nourishment that 
was going to its tops is diverted to the 
single small stern. The result is such 
growth as nature never knew.” 
Ans. —Inarching is probably the old¬ 
est form of nurse-plant propagation, 
known at least in the earliest historical 
eras and still largely practiced by Ori¬ 
ental and primitive tropical horticultur¬ 
ists. Indeed, Nature herself practices 
this art, as can be seen when limbs of 
adjoining trees, chafed by the wind, 
grow together in a vital bond forming 
the occasional “natural grafts” found in 
orchard and forest. The inarch is dis¬ 
tinguished from the more modern bud¬ 
ding and grafting methods by the scion 
as well as the stock retaining its vital 
connection with the soil through its 
own root system until the bared sur¬ 
faces have healed together. In practice 
this can only be carried out with pot 
or tub grown trees or plants that can 
be moved closely together, or in the 
rarer instances where one happens to 
stand so near the other that branches 
or trunks can be brought together. The 
cambium surfaces of graft and host 
plant are carefully bared with a keen 
knife, accurately fitted together, bound 
into position and waxed or covered with 
damp moss until the union is completed, 
when the connection of the scion with 
its own root system is severed and it 
becomes entirely dependent on the 
stock or host for its future develop¬ 
ment. This is a troublesome and ex¬ 
pensive method of increasing plant va¬ 
rieties that cannot readily be multiplied 
by cuttings or division, and is always 
superseded by ordinary grafting or bud¬ 
ding when practical methods for these 
more advantageous methods can be de¬ 
vised. 
The propagation experts of the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, however, have 
made a novel and highly useful applica¬ 
tion of this very old method by using 
it for the rapid development of hybrid 
and selected seedling plants in breeding 
experiments, finding it particularly ad¬ 
vantageous with woody plants of natu¬ 
rally slow maturity, such as roses, 
shrubbery, nut trees, Citrus and decidu¬ 
ous orchard fruits. An account of the 
work is found in Bureau of Plant Indus¬ 
try Bulletin No. 202, entitled “The Seed¬ 
ling Inarch and Nurse Plant Methods 
of Propagation.” The great value of 
this application lies in shortening the 
time that would otherwise elapse be¬ 
tween the germination of the seeds and 
the fruiting development of the subject, 
an interval of three to 10 years with 
many species and varieties, and also in 
the rapid increase of propagating ma¬ 
terial by grafts, buds or cuttings should 
the seedling prove desirable and amen¬ 
able to these methods. Take a seedling 
rose of the hardy garden type, for in¬ 
stance ; it might not normally bloom 
until the third year if left to develop its 
own root system, and would require a 
year or more of good culture to pro¬ 
duce wood large enough to secure buds 
or scions from ordinary propagation, 
but if inarched in practically the seed- 
leaf stage—as can readily be done—on a 
strong congenial stock, an enormous 
growth can be had within a few weeks 
after union is completed, and the bloom¬ 
ing period thus greatly hastened. The 
gain is likely to be greater with woody 
plants having a prolonged period of 
juvenile development, like the orange, 
apple, etc. Work of this kind, however, 
requires close attention and an equip¬ 
ment beyond that of the ordinary horti¬ 
culturist. It will prpbably remain of 
THE RTJRAB 
little utility to the commercial propaga¬ 
tor, but where time is an important 
factor in working out breeding prob¬ 
lems with plants of slow development 
its value is obvious to all. v. 
Late Fertilizing for Asters. 
IF. A. T., South Salem , A'. V.—T find 
Asters to be fairly remunerative if mar¬ 
keted very early and as late as possible. I 
have the Skinner irrigation system cover¬ 
ing my gardens and last year found that 
Asters went through a freeze (27 degrees) 
without any injury, although icicles formed 
on the leaves and blooms. I kept the 
water spraying on them continuously until 
two hours after sunrise, when every trace 
o.f ice and frost had disappeared. I planned 
to have a very late planting of Asters this 
season, aud got the seed in late June, but 
owing to various hindrances could not 
transplant as early as I wished. Got a 
thousand good plants in the last day or so 
of July. They spread as wide as large sau¬ 
cers now. What I want to do, and upon 
which J desire the advice of one who 
knows, is to keep those plants growing 
for four or five weeks yet. so as to get them 
big enough to produce good stems and 
blossoms by the first week of October. The 
land had a good dressing of cow manure 
April 1. was sowed with field peas and 
oats; these were cut for hay June 20; 
the stubble was plowed under July .'10, and 
a high-grade garden fertilizer was scat¬ 
tered in the bill, and thoroughly mixed with 
the soil. I have thoroughly cultivated the 
plants, and worked in a small quantity of 
dried blood and fine chick manure from 
the brood coops. I plan to give them a 
small feed at every cultivation, which will 
be given five days apart. I Have some 
extra nice unleacbed hard wood ashes 
which 1 have thought of using with the 
chick manure, say twice. L>o you suppose 
I can keep them hustling r>y this treat¬ 
ment, and is there anything else that I can 
do? The water makes me independent of 
frost and drought, but I fear that as the 
season cools down the plants will just 
naturally go to work to bloom in their 
season. 
Ans.—T his question was answered by 
mail in time. Experts tell us that it is 
possible, by this method, to hold back 
the bloom for a week or 10 days and 
considerably improve the flowers. It is 
well known to gardeners that nitrogen 
in a soluble form will force growth so 
as to delay maturity. We have seen this 
frequently happen in tomato culture. 
By using nitrate of soda freely through 
the season the vines keep growing and 
the fruit matures slowly. Potash seems 
to hasten this maturity, and in this case 
we should omit the wood ashes. The 
chicken manure well fined and raked 
in will answer, or the chicken manure 
soaked in water and the liquid applied 
to the plants will give the desired re¬ 
sults. Also keep up cultivation. Al¬ 
ways remember that nitrogen is the 
plant-food element which promotes 
growth. Too much of it in proportion 
to potash and phosphoric acid will make 
large and soft plants and delay ma¬ 
turity. 
I notice on page 018 note on "Toma¬ 
toes Not Fruiting.” 1 have had the same 
trouble aud will briefly state my experi¬ 
ence with the old I’onderosa. it is my 
favorite; I grow none other, don't want 
any better. I). J. II. does not mention if 
lie allows bis plants to spread all over 
the ground or trained to stakes. I’on¬ 
derosa is a wonderful tomato if treated 
right; it will not. do its best if allowed to 
sprawl all over the ground. I have fer¬ 
tilized it in way to force it into great 
plants, trained three and four branches 
from each root, each branch trained to its 
own stake, stakes driven at an angle of 45 
degrees, and prune heavily. Just as soon 
as plants begin to spread, I start in with 
tilt 1 knife, tie to the stakes and prune. I 
prune off just about half of the growth. 
I’onderosa with us will not set fruit unless 
severely pruned. I). J. II. ought to see 
the bunches of fruit I have bad, 15 large 
tomatoes on one bunch, had to prop many 
bunches to prevent them from stripping 
from branches. I have picked close on one 
bushel of tomatoes from one plant, some 
two pounds weight, many 1 Vs pounds and 
lots of them one pound. I feed heavily 
and prune heavily and I get the tomatoes. 
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