PROPAGATION OF PLANTS 



top and bottom out of a tin can and, forcing it halfway 

 into the ground, plant the seed in it. Otherwise we may 

 not have a single tree to show for a dozen seeds. 



Nothing in the whole garden is more graceful than 

 a seedling peach, and it grows faster than almost any 

 other tree. By the end of the season, with good treat- 

 ment, it should be about four feet tall and nearly an inch 

 in diameter at the ground. 



Budding. Along in September, or earlier farther south, 

 we shall need to bud our tree, i.e., plant a bud of the desired 

 variety ; let us say this is the Royal George. Budding 

 is done by slipping a bud, with a little shield of its own 

 bark, under the bark of the stock. To do this we cut a 



FIG. 71. BUDDING A PEACH TREE 



"T" in the bark, very carefully lift up the angles with 

 the thumb nail, a wooden blade, or the ivory blade of a 

 " budding knife," cut off our bud as shown in Fig. 71, 

 being careful not to include any wood in the slice except 



