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February 7, 1908
The State Herald
Holyoke, Phillips County, Logan County, Colorado
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Instructional guide on cleft grafting trees, explaining scion preparation in fall, stock preparation in spring, tools needed, and insertion process for successful union.
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How to graft trees.
Simple Directions Plainly Told Which You Will Need Next Season.
A scion is a portion cut from a plant, to be inserted upon another (or the same) plant, with the intention that it shall grow. The wood for scions should be taken while in a dormant or resting condition. The time usually considered best is after the leaves have fallen, but before severe freezing begins. The scions should be cut in about six-inch lengths from matured new wood from bearing trees of known variety; then tied in bunches and placed in moist sand, where they will not freeze and yet will be kept cold enough to prevent growth. Good results may be followed by cutting scions in the spring just before or at the time the grafting is to be done, but it is a much better plan to cut the scions in the fall.
The stock is the tree or part of a tree upon which or into which the bud or scion is inserted. For best results in grafting it is essential that the stock be in active, growing condition.
When in the spring the sap begins to move in the stock, be ready: this occurs early in the plum and cherry, and later in the pear and apple. Do the grafting if possible on a mild day during showery weather. The necessary tools are a chisel or a thick-bladed knife or a grafting iron (with which to split open the stock after it is sawed off smoothly with a fine-tooth saw), a hammer or mallet to aid the splitting process, a very sharp knife to trim the scions, and a supply of good grafting wax. Saw off a branch at the desired point, split the stock a little way down, insert a scion at each outer edge—taking care that the inner bark of the scion fits snugly and exactly against the inner bark of the stock. This—together with the exclusion of air and moisture until a union results—constitutes the secret of success. Trim the scions wedge-shaped, as shown in the picture: insert them accurately: the wedge should be a trifle thicker on the side which comes in contact with the bark. Then apply the grafting wax and the job is done.
Cleft Grafting from Start to Finish.
Simple Directions Plainly Told Which You Will Need Next Season.
A scion is a portion cut from a plant, to be inserted upon another (or the same) plant, with the intention that it shall grow. The wood for scions should be taken while in a dormant or resting condition. The time usually considered best is after the leaves have fallen, but before severe freezing begins. The scions should be cut in about six-inch lengths from matured new wood from bearing trees of known variety; then tied in bunches and placed in moist sand, where they will not freeze and yet will be kept cold enough to prevent growth. Good results may be followed by cutting scions in the spring just before or at the time the grafting is to be done, but it is a much better plan to cut the scions in the fall.
The stock is the tree or part of a tree upon which or into which the bud or scion is inserted. For best results in grafting it is essential that the stock be in active, growing condition.
When in the spring the sap begins to move in the stock, be ready: this occurs early in the plum and cherry, and later in the pear and apple. Do the grafting if possible on a mild day during showery weather. The necessary tools are a chisel or a thick-bladed knife or a grafting iron (with which to split open the stock after it is sawed off smoothly with a fine-tooth saw), a hammer or mallet to aid the splitting process, a very sharp knife to trim the scions, and a supply of good grafting wax. Saw off a branch at the desired point, split the stock a little way down, insert a scion at each outer edge—taking care that the inner bark of the scion fits snugly and exactly against the inner bark of the stock. This—together with the exclusion of air and moisture until a union results—constitutes the secret of success. Trim the scions wedge-shaped, as shown in the picture: insert them accurately: the wedge should be a trifle thicker on the side which comes in contact with the bark. Then apply the grafting wax and the job is done.
Cleft Grafting from Start to Finish.
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Instructional Guide
Horticultural How To
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Nature
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Tree Grafting
Scions
Stock
Cleft Grafting
Grafting Wax
Spring Grafting
Fall Preparation
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Story Details
Directions for preparing scions in fall from dormant wood of bearing trees, storing in moist sand; in spring, when sap flows, saw and split stock, insert wedge-shaped scions ensuring bark alignment, seal with wax for union.