. How to propagate and grow fruit. roots. One very successful experiment with out-door cuttings of the grape was performedby allowing the cane to remain on themother vines until the buds had started agrowth of one-half inch or more, and theleaves had begun to unfold, every eye wasseparated, the old wood placed entirely be-low the soil, the new growth just appearingabove the ground, shaded carefully, with aresult of full eighty per cent, of vine. In the usual manner of preparing cut-tings greater success follows when the cut-tings are taken off immediately on the falof the leaf before freezing,
. How to propagate and grow fruit. roots. One very successful experiment with out-door cuttings of the grape was performedby allowing the cane to remain on themother vines until the buds had started agrowth of one-half inch or more, and theleaves had begun to unfold, every eye wasseparated, the old wood placed entirely be-low the soil, the new growth just appearingabove the ground, shaded carefully, with aresult of full eighty per cent, of vine. In the usual manner of preparing cut-tings greater success follows when the cut-tings are taken off immediately on the falof the leaf before freezing, when they ART OF BUDDING. 11 should immediately be packed away inmoss or soil until time for planting inspring. Grape cuttings from outdoor plantingmay be made with single eyes, but all theadvantages of a two-bud cutting may beretained by simply cutting across the nodewith a sharp knife, or with shears, com-mencing the cut opposite and one-eighth ofan inch or more below the bud and finish-ing one-eighth of an inch or more Cutting- a Bug The Art of Budding. The object of budding is to rapidly mul-tiply with the least possible consumption ofcoins and time. Every leaf bud may makea tree. A slow growing orstunted stock cannot be bud-ded at all with success, there-fore the best possible cultureshould be given. All trim-, ming of the stock should beI deferred until the day of bud-ding, as every leaf taken froma plant or tree lessens thegrowth. Many labor underthe delusion that by removingthe shoots from the trunks oftheir ; young orchard treeswhile in leaf they are hasten-ing their growth. Bands forbudding are secured by re-noving the bark of basswoodn June or July and soakingJM it in water until the inneriUJi bark peels off in thin ribbons,i^ The pear in this section isDudded in July, as the leafBudding; trans- blight usually attacks it soonInrbud ready for after, stopping all growth,insertion. rendering budding impossi- ble. After the pear, we bud the plum, then
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