. Elementary principles of agriculture; a text book for the common schools. ers may be raised and abud, cut as shown at E, placed under the edges of thebark of the stock, as shown at G. The cambium layerof the bud is left in contact with the cambium layer ofthe stock. The wound is wrapped with soft twine, suchas cotton yarn, or other suitable material, to hold the edges of the bark down andkeep the bud from dryingout as at /. After a week orten days, depending on thecondition of the shoot, thebud will be grown to thestock, if the work has beenproperly done. In this waywe may cause one variety
. Elementary principles of agriculture; a text book for the common schools. ers may be raised and abud, cut as shown at E, placed under the edges of thebark of the stock, as shown at G. The cambium layerof the bud is left in contact with the cambium layer ofthe stock. The wound is wrapped with soft twine, suchas cotton yarn, or other suitable material, to hold the edges of the bark down andkeep the bud from dryingout as at /. After a week orten days, depending on thecondition of the shoot, thebud will be grown to thestock, if the work has beenproperly done. In this waywe may cause one variety ofplant to unite with is easiest made andmost hkely to be success-ful if made while the stockis growing rapidly, or whenthe bark slips, as it iscalled. 197. Later Care of theBud. After the bud hasunited with the stock, thereis still much to be done beforewe have a new plant. Thestrings are removed when thebud has united with thestock. The later condition is shown by the bud remain-Fig. 80. Steps in propagating . plants by budding mg green and plump. Alter. Propagation of Plants 135 a week to ten days, or when the string begins to be over-grown, it should be cut and removed. The next stepis to force the bud into growth. This may be done im-mediately, as in force budding, or left until the fol-lowing spring, when the top of the stock is cut oft justabove the inserted bud. This causes all the buds belowto swell and many to form shoots. All the new sproutsexcept the one from the inserted bud should be rubbedoff when they attain three to five inches in length. Thiscauses the new shoot to grow very rapidly. Many per-sons leave a foot of stock stem to protect the youngshoot. As soon as the latter is thoroughly established,the stock is pruned close down, as shown in Fig. 80/.The final result is that we have a stem of one varietygrowing on a common seedling stock. One may prop-agate millions of Elberta, or other variety of peachtrees in this way, and every tree will bear
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