Show T 1 ORE 0 RE propagating from bearing tree trees brom irom farmers 1 amors review the edi edl tor ot of the review desire desires reasons why nurserymen should propagate only from bearing tree ot of known fruit ing ability A careful study 0 of I 1 a bud will show that the objection to gating through a long series aeries of years from front young and untested buda buds from nursery rows Is well founded A bud contains the life germ and a perfect embryo tree possessing the same vas cular system of the tree or plant upon which it grows gros ond before modern in vesti gation proved the co contrary arary it was thought no variation ever place but we now know that a tree chair changes its organism and becomes weak in some parts and strong trong in other parti parts and that when those these changes are ef fectea they art is pt permanent as any of its characteristics when a tree becomes ie comes unfruitful it fruit producing or seed organism Is Is weak in its buds and the tree grow ing out of these buds will possess these weaknesses as repeated experiments have shown tako take buds from a well developed and very fruitful treo tree and another from the nu sery row where it has been propagated through a doz en or more years from the young nou bearing wood in the first case you y cu will see a marked difference in the wood growth groth the tree will not look so smooth and straight as the other but under good treatment it will come into bearing much earlier and be much more fruitful afterwards the second tree will grow smooth and straight and look took much nicer but its growth v hlll III be wood until late in its life or until something Is doni to bring it into bearing many nurserymen have experimented and proven tho the correct nesa ness of the principle but people deop e want cheap large straight smooth barked trees and insist on having them and are en on grounded in prejudice that sales cannot be effected at a price which will justify tho the additional ex pense of maintaining an orchard un dt dr condition conditions to furnish the well de grafts so long as the roan man who furnishes the big smooth tree at the smallest emal lest price gets the order there la Is no inducement to make m like the change the change however Is coming and in the not dis tant future every nurseryman will have to give evidence that hia his trees re not alt all wool woo I 1 but that they have a truit producing organism developed in them so we shall not have to wait ten years longer than necessary in or der that we may get returns tor for labor and care next 1 week we will point out some specific instances of such changes it 11 M kellogg michigan ardapple Are Apple tree root roots losing vitality 11 II T thompson ot illinois says in olden times apple reo lived much longer were hardier and more vigor ous than at the present time it was no uncommon Lommon un thing for trees to live from fifty to a hundred yc tro and corn times icher of late years espe dally in tho the western country it Is I 1 pel ml dom you eee see an t chard over thirty years of age and ind many give out in from froni ten m twenty ears there la Is un questionably a cause for this it we can find the cause we havo have taken the first step in beai nine bow to propagate trees tor for the orchard any community or individual vho aho he uses poor stock to breed from will in time run bis his or their stock dawn down so that they will lack vitality and become using a corn inon mon a lot of 0 scrubs again any farmer who uses poor teed seed because it Is cheaper will in time run bis tits crop down so his yield will bo be labs au poor in quality leas less rigorous vigorous and in fact ho he Is growing scrub grain the law of nature holds good through the animal and vegetable creation in my opinion this Is precisely what has his been done in propagating apple trees you are growing A lot of scrubs fifty to event year years ago tree trees were com ively healthy sometimes we beard of limbs or twigs being winter killed hilled but very seldom heard of trou brou ble with the roots at the present time th three ree fourths of all the that die dle do eo so from root killing many years ago horticulturists com commence mencel studying how to get hardier tops they selected scions from the tat and hardiest trees they could find they even ransacked europe in kerrch of hard scions to the tops until at lat last they havo have ben been fairly success ful now seldom you bear of tope tops being killed with frost how has it been with the root have they taken the same care as with the top to secure trong strong vigorous roots starting years ago with a hardy rait it has gradual ly lost vigor and vitality cheap plants from farmers review As a rule buy cheap and anti you get camp this name same principle I 1 think hold holds true in the nursery business binl neoe we often a strum strawberry berry plants quoted at a very low figure and if it purchased ased from these parties I artles am generally of a low grade I 1 prefer sending direct to a specialist la the gro growl wlas nis of strawberry planta plants end and paylin a good price than to the one who quotations are way below the average plants that are true to name strong healthy well rooted carefully dug trimmed and well pack ed cannot be cent sent out 1 at IL low figure and bo be profitable to the gro ar er J L wisconsin the growing of bowers flowers increase increases tram year to year many a man and rax ay a woman Is now making a coca com rif finable table living by the grawoig of flowers tor for ale sale |