Propagating trees and plants; simple directions for propagating many of the common fruits of orchard and garden; . harm if there isalso a wood bud. It is desirable to knoAV this, as awood bud will often have a fruit bud on either sideof it. When this occurs the outside buds may bebroken off, as they are of no use. Where there isonly one bud at the base of the leaf, it is usually awood bud, and where there are two or three in arow across the twig, it is almost certain that themiddle one is a wood bud and the outside onesflower buds. After a little observation and practiceit will not be difficul
Propagating trees and plants; simple directions for propagating many of the common fruits of orchard and garden; . harm if there isalso a wood bud. It is desirable to knoAV this, as awood bud will often have a fruit bud on either sideof it. When this occurs the outside buds may bebroken off, as they are of no use. Where there isonly one bud at the base of the leaf, it is usually awood bud, and where there are two or three in arow across the twig, it is almost certain that themiddle one is a wood bud and the outside onesflower buds. After a little observation and practiceit will not be difficult to select the proper kind ofbuds to use. The weather is usually very warm at buddingtime, so that it will be necessary to wrap the twigsfrom which the buds are to be taken in a dampcloth or an old newspaper moistened on the insideto prevent their drying out. As soon as the twigis cut from the tree, trim off the leaves, leaving apiece of stem about half an inch long to hold towhen the buds are being inserted. Fig. 18 (a).The manner of cutting the buds from the twig,which FRUIT-GROWER CO., ST. JOSEPH, MO. 33. Fig. 18 is known as a bud-ding: stick, is shownin Fig. 18 (b). Holdthe budding stick inthe left hand, up-side down and, withthe other hand forcet-e knife bladedown through thebark and into thewood, making adownward cut. Next,withdraw the knifeand, at a point downnearly to where thecut stopped, make across just throughthe bark and nodeeper. If the barkpeels easily (and itshould at buddingtime), the bud maynow be lifted up andthe bark will partfrom the wood veryreadily. While manyprefer to have nowood adhering tothe bud, there aresome who slice thebuds off from thetwigs, leaving a por-tion of the wood at-tached to them. Budding. The lit-tle seedling peachshould be budded as Fig. 18—Budding the peach: (a), shows desirable buds on thetwig and manner of making cuts for removing them. 34 PROPAGATING TREES AND PLANTS near the ground as it is convenient to work,which will be two
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