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else time depending on various local circumstances 

 whicli affect the growth of the tree. Tlie season niay 

 he a late or early one, or a \)C)()r soil may have retarded, 

 or a rich one stimulated the growth, so as materially 

 to altect the period for budding. Dry summers and 

 late spring planting of stocks will also retard the 

 operation. Tlie observation of the following points 

 will assist in selecting the proper time for budding. 

 The first or spring growth of leaves should be fully 

 ripened, and the midsummer growth nearly com- 

 l)leted. At this time, an abundance of ripened or 

 richly albuminous sap is thrown between the bark and 

 wood, and when both the stock and the bud are in 

 this condition, union is readily effected by the harden- 

 ing of this sap into tissue. 



The stock should be cut three or 

 four inches above the bud, as shown 

 at Fig. 28, soon after the leaves start, 

 although with very strong and well 

 rooted plants, care must be observed 

 not to deprive the plant of all its top, 

 imtil the bud has put forth a shoot 

 some inches in leno-th. As soon as 

 th6 latter has grown to nearly a foot 

 in height, it should, if inclining from 

 the perpendicular, be staked and tied. 

 Occasionally, the stump of the stock 

 will afford sufticient stay for the sujv 

 port of the shoot without the use of 

 a stake. 



Fig. 2S.* 



* Fig. 23 represents the treatment of the budded plant daring the first 8uiuiu<t. 



