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Show stock is very hardy, a severe winte : freeze or drouth may kill it. Espe-cilly Espe-cilly is this true when the graft is set above ground on the seedling stock. In the colder, extreme Northwestern Nor-thwestern States the hardiest trees are made by grafting a hardy scion of ten inches Io:ig upon a short bud. The short root piece keeps . the hardy scion alive until it throws out a good root system of its own, like a cutting, and these roots strike deeper than the lateral systems of whole roots. Judge Wellhouse finds the two-inch piece best,-but at the station pieces five inches long gave slightly better results than those half that length. The longer the scion, up to two feet, the stronger the growth, probably because of a larger leaf surface, but the difference is not sufficient to cover the extra expense on alarge scale. Probably eight to tweleve inches are best. Church and Farm. i Grafting the Apple. Grafting the apple is the subject of Bulletin 65 of Kansas station, which contains many photographs of trees, one, two and three years from the graft, taken up with all their roots intact, showing, the root systems and unions resulting from various methods of grafting. Whole Roots va Pifpf Rnnt The controversy which arose several sev-eral years ago over the relative merits mer-its of whole roots and piece roots, and long or short root pieces, long or short scions, and grafting low or high on seeding stock, etc., led the Kansas station to enter upon a series of elaborate experiments, which have been carried thru the intervening interven-ing years. Judge Wellhouse, of that state, the most extensive apple grower in the world, has also experimented ex-perimented for many years in the same line, and this bulletin gives the result reached by him also. The conclusions arrived at are as follows: Whole root grafts possess no advantage over piece roots. On the contrary, unless the whole root |