Show test the apples when planting new varieties of apples in the orchard it sometimes happens that we get a variety that does not suit us instead of waiting for the young tree to come into bearing to find this out we save a few of the from each young shrub and graft them by top working onto a thrifty tree of bearen bearing age in this way I 1 get a sample of the new apples in about 20 months and if they hey do not suit me I 1 grub out the young tree and replace it with some other variety this plan enables vs us to keep our orchard free of undesirable varieties and Is a big help in detecting trees which are not true to name the grafting job can ann be done by any farmer after a little practice and it has proven successful with us in all varieties of apples F R C in rural new yorker |