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varieties, a use for which their vigorous growth especially 

 adapts them : 



Cut off the stock just below the surface, then split it 

 with a chisel or knife-blade, and insert a wedge-shaped 

 scion, pushing it down into the cleft as far as possible, not 

 less than one or two inches; be careful that the bark 

 touches on the outside. 



Another method is to cut off the stock as before, square 

 and smooth; then with an auger bore a hole about two 

 inches deep, and perpendicular ; get a scion that will j-ust 

 fit this hole, and push it down firmly to the bottom ; make 

 sure that it goes down all the way, and in order to do this 

 the safest plan is to measure the exact depth on a slender 

 stick, then lay this against the scion, and mark its height. 

 Then proceed as in other grafting ; wrap the point of union 

 with prepared strips, and mound up the earth over it. 



TO HAVE EARLY ORANGE BUDS. 



It is of great advantage to be able to put in orange buds 

 early in the season, but, as a rule, this is impossible until 

 June, because only the current season's growth is available 

 for scions, and none of it is sufficiently matured earlier in 

 the season. By experiments, however, it has been found 

 that buds of the citrus family may be successfully ' ' win- 

 tered," just as other buds frequently are. 



Select, as late in the season as possible, exactly the same 

 kind of buds as you would if going to use them immedi- 

 ately. Make a trench in a shed, or under some shelter 

 where the ground will not become wet, and line the bot- 

 tom with leaves palmetto answers the purpose better 

 than any other lay the bud sticks on these, not piled 

 thick or on top of each other ; then another layer of leaves, 

 more buds, and more leaves; the top layer should be 

 leaves, and earth cover the whole. 



