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Propagation of Fruit Trees. 



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apricot, and peach stocks carrying dead buds are not worth while bother- 

 ing about when disbudding ; either remove or rub off all shoots. 



With the apple, select a strong vertical shoot and remove all others. 

 Trim and train into a tree the same as a growing inserted bud. Such 

 a tree should either be Northern Spy, Winter Majetin, or some other 

 blight-proof varietv used for stock purposes. If not wanted for sale 

 during the winter, it may be head-grafted the following spring with some 

 other desired variety. When removing trees for sale from the nursery 

 row the propagator should be careful not to mix them with the worked 

 varieties. To guarf] against mistake the rows should be carefully ex- 



62. DISBUDDING STOCKS. 

 a. Yearling tree, pruned, showing robber shoots. 6. Same disbudded. 



amined in the autumn, and all trees marked by tving a short piece of 

 raffia or some other suitable material around the stems. 



When disbudding the pear and quince it will repay +he operator to cut 

 off the shoots with a sharp knife close to the butt of the stock. Whilst 

 doing so he should be careful to remove the fleshy basal portion of the 

 shoots. If rubbed off, the shoots will probably sprout again. By 

 cutting, the risk of doing so is greatly lessened. 



All propagated trees unsold and left standing in the nursery rows 

 should be pruned. Such trees require to be disbudded in the spring. 

 Remove all superfluous shoots that push out upon the stem, &c.. only 



