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Apple Root-grafts

Categories: Fruit Growing

I have an old apple orchard and would like to have two or three of the

best varieties positively identified, so that I can order these kinds

from the nursery for next year's planting.



Old California apple orchards have many varieties no longer propagated

largely. If you greatly desire to have a few trees of exactly the

varieties which you are now growing, you run some risk of mistake in

ordering by name, but if you make some root-grafts by taking a piece of

the smaller roots of the tree, which you can dig out, say about the size

of a pencil, and graft scions upon them, you can secure root-grafts for

planting in nursery this year and in that way be sure to have trees of

exactly the same kind. Root-grafts can be made in the winter, placed in

sand which is kept moist and not wet, planted out as soon as the ground

warms up, and you will get immediate and very satisfactory growth in

that way.



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