. California fruits and how to grow them. Fruit culture. 1 A stick of bud wood. 2 Cutting the bud. Speedy, but the strands bearing upon a nar- row surface, and not being elastic, they are apt to do injury by cutting into the bark unless carefully watched and loosened. The fiber from basswood bark was formerly largely used, but has given place to the other materials named, which are more handily ob- tained. The buds must be examined about a week or ten days after insertion, and the liga- ture loosened, for otherwise it will cut into the rapidly-growing stock. Soiuetimes trees are badly injured
. California fruits and how to grow them. Fruit culture. 1 A stick of bud wood. 2 Cutting the bud. Speedy, but the strands bearing upon a nar- row surface, and not being elastic, they are apt to do injury by cutting into the bark unless carefully watched and loosened. The fiber from basswood bark was formerly largely used, but has given place to the other materials named, which are more handily ob- tained. The buds must be examined about a week or ten days after insertion, and the liga- ture loosened, for otherwise it will cut into the rapidly-growing stock. Soiuetimes trees are badly injured by neglect in this particular. In making June buds, where immediate growth of the bud is desired, some growers make a hard knot with the cord around the stock, above the bud, and then use the loose ends to tie the bud. When the binding around the bud is loosened, the hard knot remains on the stock, girdles it, and forces the sap into the bud. Thin wire, known to nurserymen as ''label wire," is also used for this purpose. In going through the nursery row, all seedlings which are large enough are budded at once. In going through the row again to look to the bands, if the bud is seen to be fresh looking, it is considered to have "; In stocks where the first bud has dried up, another is inserted lower down. Sometimes seedlings which were too small to hold a bud at the first working over are given a bud later in the season, or left for taking up for root grafting in the winter. In nursery practice the budder does not stop to tie his buds, but is followed in the row by another man, who carries the tying material, and does this part of the work. The common method of budding thus de- scribed is used on all common orchard fruits. Special styles of budding for special fruits will be described in the chapters treating of those fruits. Usually the budded trees are allowed to stand in the nursery row with no other treat- ment that year than the insertion and care of the
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