The California fruits and how to grow them; . soas to leave a clear stem of about six inches for the convenience ofthe budder. BUDDING THE ORANGE The orange root is the best foundation for an orange tree, andthe seedling sweet orange has been the main reliance. The seed-ling of the Florida sour orange has been used to some extent toescape gum disease. It has not been entirely free, though concededto be less subject to the trouble. Oranges have also been workedupon pomelo seedlings, which force a strong growth, root deeplyand are satisfactory. Of course many lemon, and recently manypomelo trees
The California fruits and how to grow them; . soas to leave a clear stem of about six inches for the convenience ofthe budder. BUDDING THE ORANGE The orange root is the best foundation for an orange tree, andthe seedling sweet orange has been the main reliance. The seed-ling of the Florida sour orange has been used to some extent toescape gum disease. It has not been entirely free, though concededto be less subject to the trouble. Oranges have also been workedupon pomelo seedlings, which force a strong growth, root deeplyand are satisfactory. Of course many lemon, and recently manypomelo trees, have been worked over to the orange, but in thesecases the orange root was below the other wood. All lemon rootsare not suitable for the orange. The Japanese practice of dwarfingwith the citrus trifoliata has never prevailed in this State. Recentlythe trifoliata stock has been used considerably to secure earlierripening of fruit, and the tree claimed to be sufficiently free growing,but experience favors the other xoots for standard Orange top on lemon trees eighteen months after budding. ^^Q CALIFORNIA FRUITS: HOW TO GROW THEM Budding is almost exclusively adopted for working in desirablevarieties. The best time to bud is about the time the new growthstarts on the seedling in the spring, though some practice buddingin midsummer and fall. Good, well-matured buds only should beused; those from both base and tip of the shoots are frequentlydefective. The method of budding described in Chapter IX is thatusually employed in budding citrus trees, and the rules for loosen-ing the ligature, etc., are similar. Midsummer buds are apt to havesoft growth at the coming of cold weather; fall buds remain dor-mant until spring; spring buds start to grow almost immediately,and have the benefit of the whole summer season for growth andmaturing of wood. After the bud has started out w^ell, the top of the stock shouldbe removed at a short distance above the bud, and suckers on theold sto
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