Productive farming . ing stock arerubbed off. Then the new bud makesa vigorous growth and is soon devel-oped into the new tree top. Another method is to insert thebuds of the desired varieties in thelittle seedling trees the followingspring. In this case the scions aretaken when dormant and stored in acold cellar until about June. Thismethod is quite common in some sec-tions, particularly where the hot, dryweather of August would be one seasons growth themost vigorous budded or root-graftedtrees are ready to transplant to theorchard. They are then called one-year old trees. Man
Productive farming . ing stock arerubbed off. Then the new bud makesa vigorous growth and is soon devel-oped into the new tree top. Another method is to insert thebuds of the desired varieties in thelittle seedling trees the followingspring. In this case the scions aretaken when dormant and stored in acold cellar until about June. Thismethod is quite common in some sec-tions, particularly where the hot, dryweather of August would be one seasons growth themost vigorous budded or root-graftedtrees are ready to transplant to theorchard. They are then called one-year old trees. Many apple growers prefer to leave themin the nursery one more year, and always select two-year-old trees for the setting out of new apple Peaches and Plums.—Improved varieties ofpeaches and plimis are propagated by budding. Stocks for this purpose are usually started from pits ofnative or seedling peaches and plums. Special kinds of stocks,however, are desired for a few particular varieties of Fig. 17.—Method ofpruning a budded treeafter the new shoot starts. PROPAGATION OF PLANTS WITHOUT SEEDS 37 The pits of, peaches and plums are hard to start intogrowth, the shell is too hard for the germ to burst must be frozen over winter or cracked by hand. Fre-quently layers of peach pits are covered with a little sand inshallow boxes. This is called stratifying the pits. These areleft exposed to the weather over winter. The action of thefrost should crack them. In spring they are to be plantedin rows three feet apart in rich garden soil. They are giventhorough tillage until August, when they are to be budded.
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