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DREER'S 
1921 GARDEN BOOK 
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Horticultural Notes 
’C HONEST 
Grafting with the Aid of Paraffin 
Dr. Robert T. Morris delivered a lec¬ 
ture at the New York Botanical Garden 
last year in which he described the ad¬ 
vantages obtained by tlie use of paraffin 
iu grafting nut trees. The following ab¬ 
stract of liis lecture is reproduced from 
the Journal of the New York Botanical 
Garden : 
The grafting of nut trees has been par- 
tieularly difficult as a rule for two or 
three reasons, apparently. Repair of 
j wounds by callus takes place more slowly 
| with some members of the nut-tree group 
than it does with many drupes or in the 
i rose family. The .Tuglandaeese, in par¬ 
ticular, carry a good deal of sugar in 
11heir sap and it is apparently a pabulum 
for various microbie parasites which ex¬ 
ert a destructive influence 'upon new col I 
formation. There is a tendency toward 
drying out of the graft before repair takes 
place in many of the hardwood trees and 
in the hardwood group nice adjustment 
between the cut surface of the scion and 
that of the stock is difficult because of 
the rigidity of the wood. 
A arious obstacles are overcome by the 
method of applying melted paraffin not 
only to the wood in the stock but also to 
the entire scion, buds and all. This pre¬ 
vents escape of moisture from the scion 
and maintains a sap tension correspond¬ 
ing to that of the stock <in the presence 
of negative and positive sup pressures 
Furthermore, the melted paraffin fills all 
of the interstices which would otherwise 
be occupied by decomposing sap. 
The. form of graft must be adapted to 
conditions of the stock. For example, a 
branch of stock of approximately the 
same diameter as that of the scion may 
be split in the common cleft-graft way. 
On the other hand, if the branch to re¬ 
ceive the scion is somewhat larger in 
diameter than the latter the cleft is made 
at a point which will allow the cambium 
layers of the stock and scion to be brought 
neatly together. Better than the cleft 
graft is the “bark-slot” method. A slot 
l , e ' v hith of the scion is made in the 
bark of a branch or trunk of almost any 
size and the scion is inserted into this 
slot in the -bark. Wrappings of raffia will 
suffice for small cleft grafts, but for the 
bark slot the Spanish windlass is prefer¬ 
able. This consists of a strong cord tied 
loosely about the stock where the graft 
is inserted, and this loose cord is then 
wound up with a skewer acting as a 
twister. When the cord has been wound 
tightly enough the long arm of the twister 
is fixed in the bark of the stock with a 
two-point tack t<> prevent unwinding. 
This form of fixation of the scion has 
several advantages. It holds the scion 
very snugly against the stock. It allows 
perfect covering of all wound surfaces 
with melted paraffin and also increased 
growth of the stock during the Summer 
without need for readjustment of the fix¬ 
ation device. The adjustment is auto¬ 
matic. As the stock increases in diam¬ 
eter during the season’s growth it un¬ 
winds the Spanish windlass up of the 
cord toward the twister side on the stock 
side with a corresponding winding. 
When preparing stocks for grafting 
purposes it is well to cut (hem back dur¬ 
ing the dormant season and paint the cut 
surfaces or cover them with melted par¬ 
affin. While this is the preferable way 
for preparing stocks, we find, however, 
that, tops may lie cut back at almost any 
me during the Summer after the cessa¬ 
tion of the free flow of sap and grafting 
may be done at the same time. Theo¬ 
retically. the plant physiologist knows 
very well that such a procedure would 
shock the tree, but so far as I can de¬ 
termine this shock is not a verv serious 
one. 
After the stock has been grafted it is 
important to break off shoots which start 
in advance of the starting of the scion 
buds. This must be continued until the 
scion buds have made several inches of 
growth. After that time stock shoots 
may Jbe allowed to develop in order to 
help in furnishing pabulum for the root 
for the next year’s growth. At the end 
of the third year all stock shoots should 
be removed permanently and onlv the 
I growth of the graft permitted, provided 
the graft growth is large enough to bal¬ 
ance the root. 
Scions are preferably cut during the 
dornlfint season and put into cold storage 
or otherwise preserved until the time for 
their employment, but by means of the 
paraffin method it has been possible for 
me to do a good deal of direct grafting 
experimentally, cutting scions directly 
from a growing tree and inserting them 
into a stock tree. When we employ the 
direct method of grafting, all new growth 
of the year is cut away from the scion 
and we depend upon older latent buds in 
the scion. The time for nut-tree grafting 
is preferably after the leaves are fairly 
well out and the free flow of sap is less 
than it is earlier in the season. Practi¬ 
cally, I have successfully grafted hickories 
from March until the last week in July, 
and find that the customary grafting sea¬ 
son can now be extended from five weeks 
to nearly five months. The methods which 
are employed for grafting nut trees may 
also be used for other fruit trees. 
ROBERT T. MORRIS. M. D. 
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