HOW TO BUD AND GRAFT. 39 



fruit as large as a walnut on its upper end, and we expect 

 to see that lemon come to perfection in the bosom of its 

 foster mother, and to have brothers and sisters two years 

 hence. 



In two weeks after the operation of budding its success 

 or failure will usually be apparent. During this interval, 

 and longer, if the bud " takes," the scion should be partially 

 shaded from the too fierce rays of the sun by a light wrap- 

 ping of moss, or better still, as it avoids the risk of too 

 much moisture from heavy rains, by a board inclined 

 against the trunk in front of the scion. 



Another point, and one not generally known (we have 

 only learned it ourself by personal experience), is this: 

 Always insert your bud on the north or northeast side of 

 the stock ; glance at the shadows cast by our hot summer 

 sun during three fourths of the day, and you will see the 

 reason why the southern and western portions of the 

 stock being all that time exposed to its scorching rays, and 

 insuring the broiling or frying to a brown cinder of your 

 tender scion. 



Still another thing to be attended to before beginning 

 the actual operation of budding is the mode of wrapping 

 after the insertion of the scion. Some people give no 

 protection to the bud at all, and these slovenly folks lose 

 three fourths of their work, as they deserve to do ; others 

 put a little daub of grafting wax over the edges of the 

 cut, and these scarcely less lazy people lose at least one 

 half of their time and labor, and those scions that do 

 "take" do not grow with half the vigor that they would 

 if properly treated at the outset. 



But there are still other persons, wise in their genera- 

 tion, who put faith in those grand old sayings that 



" Whatever 's worth the doing 

 Is worth the doing well;" 



