The Fine Art of Growing Stock 
By Our Propagator, A. E. Maloney 
J 
[UST where to look for values and what to recognize as de¬ 
fects are the problems that confront private buyers of nur¬ 
sery stock every season. Some soils are better adapted than 
others to the production of good nursery stock, and the process of 
growing fruit trees for replanting is not a simple one. In the 
first place there are but few localities in the U. S. where the 
work can be advantageously done, for nursery stock requires the 
best possible soil and the land used for this purpose is held at a 
very high premium around Dansville. 
As to the best stock on which trees should be grafted, many 
nurserymen disagree. We import all our seedlings on which 
different varieties are budded directly from France because we 
have found by experience that the elements existing in the U. S. 
are not at all favorable for raising seedlings with the full meas¬ 
ure of success required. Around January 1st, when these seed- 
lings begin to arrive from France, we carefully place them in our 
root cellars, and throughout the winter see that they are properly 
trimmed and made ready for planting in the Spring. 
We plant them on the upland during the month of April, and 
all through the Summer months they are carefully cultivated and 
hoed weekly until early Fall. Budding, which is scientific work and can only be done by 
experts, is accomplished in the months of July and August. In fact the writer personally, 
cuts the scions for budding from the best bearing trees, to insure its growth the Maloney 
way, thus making certain of our patrons getting true to name trees. 
The buds are first inserted two inches above the collar of the seedling after which they 
are carefully tied with raffia. Not until the following Spring is it possible to cut off the 
seeding just above the bud, as the root has only the bud to support. But by proper cul¬ 
tivation and careful hand work, it is possible to produce a growth of from 4 to 6 feet the 
first year. When still another Spring arrives, we head these buds to a height of 30 inches, 
but it takes skilled labor and very careful handling to produce the correct development 
of these heads. 
All this care and expense would avail us little unless our stock is carefully dug, anc| so 
important do we consider the digging that we use steam power for the purpose which is 
the only system that insures our getting all the roots entact for not only good roots, but 
all the roots are necessary for the proper thriving of a tree. We trust we have given you 
enough pointers for you to determine “Where to buy nursery stock.’’ 
Yours respectfully, 
A. E. MALONEY, Pres. 
E. MALONEY 
President 
A. E. Maloney at right personally supervises budding and every detail of propagation 
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