Grafting Grapes Requires Expertise and Proper Stock
In Rural New Yorker Charles Boykin argues grafting grapes needs trained amateurs or professionals. He notes grafting methods vary and year one is crucial, winter protection essential for Vinifera, and American grapes often fare better on proper rootstocks like Rupestris varieties. He predicts Vinifera grafting will expand in eastern America.
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Charles Boykin
Indiana
New Yorker
California
St. George
America
How Much and When to Prune the Apple Trees
New York state experiment station at Geneva reports pruning tests on Baldwin Baiken Esopus Hubbardston McIntosh Spy Greening Rome and King apples. Results show little pruning after establishment yields a larger head and greater bearing area with less effort than heavy pruning.
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New York State Experiment Station
Geneva
Baldwin
Baiken
Esopus
Hubbardston
McIntosh
Spy
Greening
Rome
King
Top and Double Worked Fruit Trees Explained
The article explains grafting terms and outcomes for fruit trees. It notes that the grafted variety remains the same fruit regardless of stock, with growth influenced by stock vigor. Double worked trees are those grafted again, often in nurseries, leaving only trunk segments between graft points.
How Two Women Avoided Operations
Mrs Ethel Thurston of Lima Ohio credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with easing severe abdominal pain backache and inflammation and says it saved her from a planned operation. She urges other women to try the medicine.
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Ethel Thurston
Pine Street
Lima
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Beard
Eddy
Texas
Lydia Pinkham
M. E. Bearp
R. No. 1
Box 143
Two Pickings of Apples Improve Grimes Harvest
Orchardists favor a two harvest method for winter Grimes apples. As soon as about half are large enough, they are picked and the rest wait to mature further for larger fruit and better picks.
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Mickie
Gwan
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Jailya
Gosh
Felx
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