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THE AVOCADO IN FLORIDA. 



Bud sticks (tip". 5) are cut from well-matured g-rowth, especially such 

 as shows an abundance of active Imds. (See iig. 5, (/, a^ a.) Wood 

 with man}" blind buds (see lig. 5, l^ 7>, 1>) should be avoided and care 

 taken not to use such buds in propag-ating. Some are likely to occur 

 on an}" stick. 



Various methods of 1)udding have been adopted and some forms of 

 grafting have been suggested. The common shield bud (fig. 2) seems 

 to be about as successful as any that have been tried, though the patch 

 bud is also used with a considerable degree of success. 



mm 





h 



b 



b 

 b. 



ml 



CL.A 



..h 



Fig. 2.— Shiclfl 

 bud fut out 

 preparatory 

 to insertion. 



Fig. 3.— Sped- 

 ling p.vocado 

 stock with 

 •shield bud in- 

 serted. 



Fig. 4.— Shield 

 bud wrapped 

 with waxed 

 cloth. 



GRAFTING. 



Fig. 5. — Bud stick; a, a, etc., 

 "live" buds in varit )us stages 

 of development; b, b, etc., 

 blind buds wliich should not 

 be used. ' 



Baltet" recommends four different methods of grafting: (1) Inarch- 

 ing, (2) veneer grafting, (3) cleft grafting, and (-i) veneer grafting near 

 the root. In inarching and cleft grafting the top of the stock is fig- 

 ured as having l)een cut away. In the other two methods the top of 

 the stock is left until the scion has started. Well-matured wood will 

 live for several weeks if kept in a .sufficiently moist condition, and will 

 doubtless unite readily with the stock, but it is much more wasteful 

 of scion wood and a more tedious process than budding. 



f'L'Art de Greffor, 7tli cd., Tarig, ]W2, p. 226. 



