. Elliott's fruit book; or, The American fruit-grower's guide in orchard and garden. Being a compend of the history, modes of propagation, culture, etc., of fruit trees and shrubs, with descriptions of nearly all the varieties of fruits cultivated in this country; notes of their adaptation to localities and soils, and also a complete list of fruits worthy of cultivation. Fruit-culture; Fruit. 3. Fig. 6. Fig. 4. Fig common (shield budding, only in leaving a small piece of wood at base of the bud inserted, instead of taking all out. An incision is made lengthwise through the bark of the stock, a
. Elliott's fruit book; or, The American fruit-grower's guide in orchard and garden. Being a compend of the history, modes of propagation, culture, etc., of fruit trees and shrubs, with descriptions of nearly all the varieties of fruits cultivated in this country; notes of their adaptation to localities and soils, and also a complete list of fruits worthy of cultivation. Fruit-culture; Fruit. 3. Fig. 6. Fig. 4. Fig common (shield budding, only in leaving a small piece of wood at base of the bud inserted, instead of taking all out. An incision is made lengthwise through the bark of the stock, and a small cut at right angles at the top, the whole somewhat resembling the letter T., fig. 3. A bud is then taken from a shoot of the present year's growth, by shaving off the bark an inch or an inch and a half in length, with a small part of the wood directly beneath the bud, fig. 4. The ed- ges of the bark, at the incision in the stock, are then raised a little, fig. 5, and the bud pushed downward under the bark, Hg. G. A bandage of bass-bark, woolen-yarn, or other substance, is then wrapped around, commencing at the bottom and passing the bud, re- turning again and tying just below, covering all but the bud, fig. 7. The pressure should be just sufficient to keep the inserted portion closely to the stock, but not such as to bruise or crush the bark. In about ten clays or two weeks after insertion, the strings will require to be loosened, and at expiration of three-weeks removed altogether. The ensuing spring, as soon as the buds begin to swrell strongly, cut off the stock about six inches above the bud ; and as the shoot or bud grows, tie it to the piece of stock above its inser- tion until about midsummer, when it will be time to cut away the piece of stock above the bud, leaving a sloping cut downward from the top of insertion of bud. An improper practice with some is to place the buds in water; this so saturates them with moisture, that they have no attractive force left
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