Show spring is the time to make final preparations for grafting SY dr ZVI rt C merri horticulturist utah agricultural college fruit groaners oil 11 over aver the tb WW went bod and particularly the owners of the cor harda burd a are b hor iclet interested each year in the glib b laet wt of top some ot of their fruit afriat to trees bar ow 1 la G time for far llie ilia final go of to for tills lippirt ot or w ark irk bit barins arl nia ilia top working ot of trees Is 1 a reply coply tile the gandi KT tIling into ilia alie top toys of fruit use ties of another variety hilety 1 Is better 1 in nam ret the than the variety maly already being produced by the tree it would wt of course not be worth wall to go to ill the ilia trouble of at making the change all over the older settled I 1 litfin of the 1 e meet ft eat them are am lunt count less old fruit fr trees a especially in the harom circh lari hards de which ban bear inferior fealt of i ery ary poor and almost M deng lari a detles etlea at best 1 in two many co tile are m varieties varie Hea that wim were good at one a time but ft hah imle have now be been superseded I 1 in publik f aidor by newer am anil better the iel trea to be grafted lifted 1 I 1 I h leave ve E a an sound I 1 lic althy tauali and ad the die lo r part att 1 the nath main b branches 1 I I 1 ablard foe be az vig amea ocona and ad IQ I 1 gool condition cand thin it 11 does 1 not net pay to 1 graft onto a decaying or unsound to or ties at I least it t not if ft the trunk and ier I er parts of the branches are offer affected ed tim tree iran or part pail which recedes tile graft 1 ia called lied tile stock fork and ad the me alg tw or part width i instated in md is in calkin a cion chin I 1 Isu I 1 dually olty tile the chions alons are collected collect ei the its fall 11 before the giat liag is to be ilone done in the spring As a matter of tut fout the cona can be obtained an am time after fia the wood and has matured and the ae leaves as ill true failed in 11 the nil and aad before bof re the budi bud begin to well swell alie ill next near spring proeung pro hUng tile claas on con the tores do not at bechina injured by it the cold cather ather of winter 1 in I aling antl and so securing curIng the clon get tim them fr fann trem of 0 loan n P prodoc dc filim if there tire am none of the de dred varieties from which to select alons in the neighborhood go to an orchard where here they i eniy y he be obtained select only the loung wood it tint thit ans as produced the 1 paiit t bummer it 1 Is dufin is auy ally more vigorous in tile the outer anil and I 1 upper pat por t lure tlona of tile alee and till alifi should lie be used new out cut those these into into info IMIA I MIA of bout doe fort foot bunch anil all 11 tie thana in I 1 v at limit aind ad bury them heto in mit send gand in the cellar until graft ing finiff way may be done nt at con can III n ren enca after 0 aiice II leo Ice climeth of tile hie trevo trees III his C on wo leed I 1 ibie h 0 niest niost at conanon and d s t f t weta method d of if gi ft ira th the e oli otiler e r t m v d f Is 0 by file fhe left clett graft this method I 1 if tul tu table A for bunches hol two no mchue hall all oer or I 1 in A mple ample method ot af gT aftic the twigs about the name anine bize 1 ns 1 tile tiie cion chin wixie it Is in bv be the ilia a apfler it or 1 tongue creft which A met lanil ad ilia eftie prepa Atlon or ot tz the law 1 fa U the same that 1 Is they g are cut into lengths ot at about tour four inbe inched caon stick stored in the cell malir bill wake malce tb throb can with alth three or four buds bad ewh in inserting onto auto the stock loch care hould he take taken to im see that chat tile the lower end of the cloo clon la Is attached I 1 on the stock talk and ad not allow the clon clem to be placed are apoldo ill do down till precaution may amny imand hound super superfluous nim to some a and yet my experience with th a grail galt me many it students has taught an nr and to be ba oure bure and caution them on this point the cleft graft a bronch branch of the tron tree Is c carefully carf full fully y fawad off at the dw de load pont polar for grafting with n graft ing chiel the lihs leml la Is split open but any wide to in insert the cf clon sticks stick whose aloan I lower ir r rude ends have be been cut bo a ell pe leading th the outer far aide ot of tile edged part pact Bor nelmi wider vider than the lynnr part too to china are am IT lly l lo inserted we on each limb oer r to two 1 inches ideis in diameter this 1 Is to double I tai clone clinn ces of a nr for if but bothi grow the weaker rooker one I 1 Is cat out at the beat vt year now the roost 1 part of the operation pericles to the necessity of tuning hig us the cambium 13 laser of the tha clon fit tile gift ot imblum layer of the stock luck the a citan C itan II layer is that at 1 1 eg 11 lost just butvill uye befit bark and the wood it Is ie the active region gium of growth ot at the stem it if the layers of the uck and clon cion do not n fit I 1 i it in csele Yiao loes to hope for success how ever it if till tills phase of tile tie work is com car I 1 MY arched the graft grafter can caa PC d his olk with both boba hope hape and c conal afi dence years of experience alth stu mt caia daug cleft for th the s ill faret time have shown that they ord i lo 10 about OU go percent 8 success tile the op operation for the splice pill graft craft Is B R mple male A long jang sloping moving cut JB Is inde on an both ohp 0 small stock twig and ad ill the coa clon aul and they ahey are joined ar tose gether Hier BO an tile the ill tai 13 erg coincide alie toa I 1 graft 1 IB a modified PUI graft here a auglis blaut split is made on both bothi llie ilia cion cl find ad stock cut surface we so that on joining them tile the union ri be somewhat hot wore mccine ilia final stage ot of the operation is the union nad and g graft ing aux wax Is andily ws ly made ingtam by I 1 A 9 raged er 4 parte part by weight of 0 me bresn A 2 parts bee and I 1 part rand lea berf 0 or mutton hilbin after ilia die as iten condition hns has been m readied slid and after boiling for about one minute the riia amt d I 1 quid mass canom Is poured into a in bucket III of ft old cold fliter fl vi iter an A AB ican boon as it 11 ii i i cool cramb to laud it ia taken out md fand ad pulled 1 in the same me fashion aa andu cindy candy fl choh ahti it t a unlit color it Is ready maill for foar use to present it it 11 lt lIK 1 to the hlila it I 1 IB desirable to rub tallow over ever I 1 the ile hands ad bellare handling a vax hiie wax I 1 need ed to color the cut anil and alrack of at the grafted dam to prevent driem out find the mrs ot at dueease or it deloi 5 1 in chett left grafting graffin it J sa sot at cesary to bind ow or tie the parts pans fur far that 1 Is a done ele alien it ali iland 1 is altin itcan and nd the parta A of if the limb lamp aleether ether on an tle the at clon but of in III splice or doogue 1 19 I 1 IE ia ald chelm ce elm y to bind tile the parts part by a v waxed cord card pr or by raffia |