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Thames Star, Volume XXX, Issue 9111, 4 July 1898, Page 1

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If anyoi cuttings fr. scions or stt aa soon as late. The (chiefly M for stocks cuttings (■ spring); c stocks for trees of w, scions for> September. The reei now (or ea, perfectly d* , „ sap of an# ■ ,: - ."* grafted. H % s active sap # v (- into their rd a ; . .\ • A - wfflbe eas* , -.., - - on which tl . « • >, ;v | found now^ . it'^'y*" cultural boo - f * &jc-ii - ri , mention And *' "\~';;: Of Plants,"^* ,\ standard weV^ . . __^_, How to Grortßent I*' . -: The cuttings should then he placed , slantingly in any verr light soil or sand; do not shoe tqem into small lengths, but leave them their full length, with about 2 to 4 inches andfr ground, Cover lightly, yet enough to press the soil against the cut or "~ wounded end; and place them so that the direct rays of the sun nay not t shine upon them.' The closer they are to each other the better. Signer ,'--J Bragato advised in the case of grape if vine cuttings that they should be tied J in bundles of 80, and buried together *;. thus. He also recommends eutbiiig- ■! J up, so as to cover the catt^|i^ia>^ tirely. My own experienoj is Mi MM such as to confirm the adviiOtU^y of '§1 this method for vines, and t thuk 'h^M would be even less advantas^oos i*:M the case of scions 4br grafting. To.M gut the matter shortly, cottiogt 'ftr/:-^ grafting must be placed njae to feeep/'^l them quite fresh and yet to have thesjt'il as long as possibb in a dormant «t»ML M Further information as to the gnf&m' M of the various fruit trejv.will appeeJ'^ when the proper set*of approaches, i AMMtICAK^A.TJJIS. , -fi These are now be% intmbwei in V,j considerable numbeW Into New Zea* /i land, and lest anyone should nisun* - derstand, I may say that they aie"^ bred from plums that were indigwibiu ' to America, and no dorubt-wfie fob«, found there before Goluisbiu ever saw v the Islands of the West Indies. They / ate known to botanists as Pranua ° Americana, arc found itVom Canada ' to Mexico, but not one offhtwUd ■< sorts was really a nt lill (fii<pj»i i n turned their attention to the Mind produced improved sorts by good flunagMnent or byyomeaing. At the q same time it is doubtful if any J^ybtuUi have been produced between the "- American plums and the—European ; varieties (Prunuß*Domeittea). %tt^* better sorts 'are Wild Goose, J Charles Downing, Bobinson, Lon*,'i Star, and Missouri Aprioot. - ' -;'1