. California fruits and how to grow them. Fruit culture. How to Grow Them 323 PruniiiP; the Lemon lemon tree where the lemon on its own root would fail. The growth of orange seed- lings for budding has been described in the last chapter. If lemon seedlings are desired they may be grown in the same way. Plants either for permanent growth or for stocks for budding can be grown from cuttings, as explained in Chapter VIII. The budding of the lemon is practi- cally the same as of the orange, which has been described. An old tree can be changed orange, after it is well shaped, simply needs attention
. California fruits and how to grow them. Fruit culture. How to Grow Them 323 PruniiiP; the Lemon lemon tree where the lemon on its own root would fail. The growth of orange seed- lings for budding has been described in the last chapter. If lemon seedlings are desired they may be grown in the same way. Plants either for permanent growth or for stocks for budding can be grown from cuttings, as explained in Chapter VIII. The budding of the lemon is practi- cally the same as of the orange, which has been described. An old tree can be changed orange, after it is well shaped, simply needs attention to encourage it to retain the bearing form to which it seems naturally disposed. The orange provides itself with satisfactory bearing wood," as a rule; the lemon devotes itself, even when it is old enough to know better, to a rangy rambling wood growth with bearing wood upon the ends of willowy rods where it is swept about in the wind and burned in the sun, instead of nestling it neatly among the leaves as the orange Lemon tree under bring fruit a distance from the soil. from one variety to another by the methods described for the orange, and oranges can be worked into old lemon trees and good fruit secured if the lemon itself be growing upon an orange root, which is likely to be the case with trees planted during the last decade. Planting of the lemon is the same as that of the orange. The distance in planting varies from twenty to twenty-five feet. Irri- gation of lemon and orange trees is also similar. PRUNING THE LEMON. The pruning of the lemon is essentially different from that of the orange, because the habit of the tree is different. The lemon requires constant attention to bring it into g-ood bearincj form and keep it there; tjic The rational proceeding with the lemon is, then, to develop it at first into a low, stocky and strong form, such as is described in Chapter XII for deciduous trees. This may be secured by pinching so as not to allow running
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