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Oriental Flowering Trees and Shrubs 
one year by tight wires or labels. The sa fest course is to remove all labels. 
Propagation: ‘In our section of Pennsylvania, Yoshino, as well as all 
subbirtella sorts: Weeping Cherry and Beni Higan, produce heavy crops 
of fruit and seeds. While Weeping Cherry seeds produce Weeping Cherry 
trees, the product is not worth being perpetuated, as superior sorts are in 
existence, such as our 
Shidare Higan. Yosh¬ 
ino and Beni Hi gan 
Cherries may be repro¬ 
duced from seeds true 
to type with very little 
variation. 
The usual method of 
commercial propagation 
of Japanese Roseflower¬ 
ing Cherries and Weep¬ 
ing Cherries is budding 
on mazzard cherry un¬ 
derstock. The mazzard 
is the hed gerow cherry 
found so abundantly in 
the thirt een original 
States^—^a close relative 
to the cultivated sweet 
cherries. We have found 
that Asiatic understock 
has no advantage over 
‘mazzard ’ cherry so 
common in America. 
After all, it originated 
in Asia and is possibly 
d j T T Pujizan zahura (Mt. Fuji) 
osely related to 
Flowering Cherries than the skeptics believe it to be or the sap of the two 
would not blend so perfectly. The objection we found to the budding 
procedure was that by the time the inserted bud grew, the understock 
would be two years older than the bud, causing a union that was not 
exactly perfect. This caused no serious inconvenience or injury, but while 
searching for a better method we discovered that by grafting a one-year-old 
twig on a one-year-old root, we had a better balance, and by planting these 
grafts deep enough we wou Id h ave all on their own roots within one year. 
We feel this is a distinct advantage and have no intention of changing our 
system. In fact, we could offer our trees as being on their own roots. 
