Show fruit growing in utah county mr david cluff sen writes to us under data of provo an aug 20 his bis views and experience is as f follows thinking that it would be interesting if not beneficial to the readers of the news 1 I 1 will here make a few statements with regard to in this teri ten atory As I 1 have had some toma experience in that line of business for the he last ten year years my attention has been more moore particularly paid to that part of horticulture since my residence in utah I 1 NEW METHOD OF EARLY danly FRUIT I 1 have now over one hundred peach and apple trees growing in my orchard about an equal number of each sixty six of 0 which are bearing trees some somo of the apple trees are very full of fruit and have to be propped up to keep them theny from breaking down I 1 have been some seven or eight years in rearing my orchard from the seeds heed seed but elpe experience I 1 lence has taught ma me that I 1 cad can can rear an orchard in less than halt of that time I 1 can now produce apple trees bearing apples from the scion grafted into haws bush or roots two years ago last april I 1 have scions in my orchard grafted in april that have grown four feet feat seven inches and will probably grow some fifteen inches more by fall macinga growth office of five feet in one season 0 GRAFTING RAFTING ON tuc TUB moux MOUN tait TAlt 4 HAWS the haws flaws should be set out one ona year before gratt graft grafting irig ilig to give the roots a good chance to and that will throw the he scion ahead faster the haws when set out should be about the tha size of a mana maua firger and placed a little lower hi in the tha ground than il it t formerly grew to give more room to graft the tho scion in two or three inches below tha surface of the iho ground the acion should be taken off in february and buried burled in fit the ground until time of grafting and if grafted in by a good experienced hand the trees will be begin 9 in to bear in two years BUDDING la Is of great importance to the agriculturist ag as very young trees can be made to bear some two or three years sooner and older trees that bear poor fruit can soon be made to bear good fruit the WRITERS MANNER OF BUDDING my bly manner of budding is this I 1 first select my buds from trees that have choice fruit I 1 then commence in the top limbs and if the tree free is so large that I 1 cannot reach and bend down the linis lining I 1 take a short ladder to stand on so that I 1 can place the tha bud near the top of the present years growth I 1 then clip off the tip end a little above the bud and soon so on until I 1 have gone through half or two thirds of the limb limbs the remainder of the thel limbs I 1 cut dt omm not all at once I 1 but part rt his this hid year ear and part next and thus the tree free that cat rat onca once me bore bad h fluit ait aft will soon bear the best of fruit the mode of budding above alluded to Is quite novel noyel and we should think involved more labor than the common method of buddin budding on the main suck st ck or stem stems or on a few of the larger branches near their base however it is by no maani means impossible in that there are modes yet undiscovered which may be far superior to and eventually en entirely supersede those now in vogue among us the field for experimenting has been only partially explored go oa on with your experiments an ald d do not cot fall fail to advise us its of the results |