Show grafting and grimmig fruit trees an experienced cultivator in dutchess Dat chess county N Y says scions for grafting should be cut in february which is the right season to insure their living and doing well they should then ie be lious ilous housed e d in a cellar until the time for inserting them arrives which with you might be by the last week in april or the first of may and during the latter month they should be put rut only into healthy vigorous branches such as you would not care to remove from the tree and thus you will have an artificial tree that will be ready for bearing in about three years by removing too many branches f from rom a tree injury may be done careful attention should be given to this point in lopping the branches preparatory to grafting in order that the sap may pass into the remaining branches and keep the tree healthy and growing I 1 give you these ideas knowing that fruit trees are often injured by those who go about the country making business to set grafts in n april and may setting as many scions as they can and getting pay for those that live thus doing great damage to the trees many farmers in our country count have I 1 think a wron wrong g idea dea as to the time of pruning their apple tre trees aa saying ai ing it is of little consequence when the t h tree tr ee is is pruned it if it only needs pruning this I 1 am ready to say isa ia a sad mistake for at all seasons when the sap is down it is in wrong the first or second week in june is the only fit season for pruning the apple atee then the sap is in full flow and the wound made by cutting off a bough begins to heal and grow over immediately |