A Valuable Hint.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 169, 22 June 1883, Page 2

A Valuable Hint.

The Bohemians are entitled to the credit of fcha discovery of making beautiful plantations of the best 3orts of apple-trees, which have neither sprung from seeds nor grafting. Th -ir plan is to take shoots from the choicest sorts, insert each of them into a potato, and plunge both into the ground, leaving but an inch or two of the shoot above the Barface. The potato nourishes the shoot whilst it is taking root, an I the shoot gradually springs np and b93OTie3 a healthy tree, bearing the best of fruits without requiring to be grafted. This discovery is valuable, for it the seeds or kernels of apples are sown, all except that one rounded seed, wiiich differs m appearance from the others, produce I crabs instead of apples. Cutting, too when committed to the earth succeed. The sun dries up th^ sap I before the roor is formed, and it must be tinder very favourable circuit mces i that a cutting will &n3W-)r the expecsa- < turn of him who planted it. The Bohemian metho d seldom fails, and nearly all other outtmgs of not only ! fruit trees but shrubs have been successfully tried.