Show J M r 4 A r propagating froni from bearing trees ri from ram farmers review the editor of via tho review desires reasons why nurserymen nurseryman nursery men should propagate only y I 1 I 1 from bearing trees treed of known fruiting ability A careful study of a bud will wilt show that the objection to pro ga gating through gli a long series of years fro from myoung young and untested buds from nursery rows la is well founded A bud contains the life 0 germ and a perfect embryo tree possessing tile the same vascular I 1 I 1 system of the tree or plant upon which it grows and before modern investigation vesti gation proved the contrary it was thought 0 no Yar variation lation ever took look place but we now know that a tree changes its organism and becomes weak in somo some parts part sand and strong in other parts and that when these changes are effected they ai abc e it us permanent as any of its characteristics a tree bec becomes onies unfruitful its fruit producing or seed organism is weak in its buds and tile the tree growing out of thesa buds will possess these weaknesses as repeated experiments have shown take buds from a well developed and very fruitful tree and another from the nursery nu scry row where it has been beau propagated through tigh a dozen or more mor years eyears from f ram the young nonbearing wood in tho the first cass case you will see a marked difference in tho wood growth the tree tice will not look so smooth and straight as the other but under good treat treatment ent it will coma come into bearing much earlier earlier and be much more fruitful afterwards the second tree will ivill grow smooth and straight ai and I 1 d look much nicer but its growth will be wood until late fate in its life or until something is done to bring it into bl barrig beail ear hg Rig many nurserymen nurseryman nursery men have ex experimented and proven the correctness oi of tho the principle but people want cheap large straight smooth barked trees and insist on oil having them and are so grounded in prejudice that sales cannot be effected at a price which will justify the additional e expense of maintaining an orchard under conditions to furnish the well de grafts so long as the man who furnishes the big smooth tree at the smallest price gets tho the order there is no inducement to make the change the change however is coming and in the he not distant future every nurseryman will have to give evidence that his trees are not all wood but that they have a fruit producing organism developed in them so wo shall not have to wait ton ten years longer than necessary in order that we may g get t returns for labor and care next nett week we will point out some specific instances of such changes R TI kellogg michigan |