CHAPTER VI. 



BUDDING. 



HERE it is the purpose of the orange-grower 

 to bud his trees it is better that the budding 

 should be done before the trees are taken from 

 the nursery. The reasons are ist, the sooner in 

 the life of the tree the budding is done the earlier 

 and more thorough the healing of the wounds ; 

 zd, the budding is done with greater ease and ra- 

 pidity in the nursery than in the grove ; 3d, in 

 transplanting trees of considerable size it is impos- 

 sible to take up all the roots, and as it is necessary 

 that the top should not exceed in proportion the 

 roots in transplanting trees, it is beneficial to cut 

 back the top considerably. If the budding has 

 been done but a few months before transplanting, 

 the wounds will have healed and the proportion be- 

 tween the roots and top will have become about 

 right for transplanting without the necessity of in- 

 flicting new wounds upon the branches at a tim? 

 when the tree is in its most tender condition. 



A good time to begin to bud is when the trees in 

 the nursery are one year old. By budding every 

 alternate tree the budded trees can be set the fol- 



