Bulletin of the of Agriculture . ave proved that under properconditions of storage, viz, sterilized and prop-erly moistened moss and a cool temperature,fruit-bearing bud wood keeps i,ts vitality aswell as any other kind of wood. Experiencehas shown that the use of small bud sticksis as successful in securing a stand of livingbuds and is as practicable as the use of the FlG- 16-_An orange bud stick of *- fruit-bearing wood with a larger Ones. Washington strain fruit at- The discovery of the practicability and taeheddesirability of the use of fruit-bearing bud wood for propagationp
Bulletin of the of Agriculture . ave proved that under properconditions of storage, viz, sterilized and prop-erly moistened moss and a cool temperature,fruit-bearing bud wood keeps i,ts vitality aswell as any other kind of wood. Experiencehas shown that the use of small bud sticksis as successful in securing a stand of livingbuds and is as practicable as the use of the FlG- 16-_An orange bud stick of *- fruit-bearing wood with a larger Ones. Washington strain fruit at- The discovery of the practicability and taeheddesirability of the use of fruit-bearing bud wood for propagationpurposes came about through a study of methods for isolating thenavel-orange strains. Experiments with fruit-bearing bud woodproved that the buds from such wood grew equally well and inmost cases better than the buds cut from nonfruit-bearing growth of the young trees from buds taken from fruit-bearingwood has been equally good in all cases and better in most instancesthan that of trees propagated from sucker or nonfruit-bearing 144 BULLETIN 623, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. The isolation of the valuable strains through bud selection is ofvital commercial importance to the entire Washington Navel orangeindustry. The isolation of the inferior strains is of interest only fromthe experimental standpoint. The propagation of trees of the valuablestrains will result not only in increased production but, what is equallyimportant, in a uniform, improved production of improved crops offruit of greater commercial value. From this standpoint, the isola-tion of the best strains is of importance, not only to the growerbut to the consumer as well. TOP-WORKING UNDESIRABLE TREES. The elimination from established orchards of trees of undesirablestrains has been effected by top-working these trees with select budsfrom trees of the Washington strain. The selection of trees to be top-worked was made before the fruitsborne by these trees were picked. While trees of some of the in
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