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CITRUS FRUITS AND THEIR CULTURE. 



velop into trees or they may be budded or grafted, if so 

 desired, after they have attained sufficient size. 



SELECTING, CUTTING AND KEEPING BUDWOOD AND CIONS. 



The most rigid care should 

 be exercised that no mistake be 

 made in the identity of the tree 

 or trees from which budwood 

 and cions are to be cut. At all 

 places in the process of propa- 

 gation where it is possible for 

 errors to occur, no precaution 

 should be neglected to guard 

 against mixing of varieties or 

 the accidental substitution of 

 one variety for another. Care- 

 ful labeling of varieties, the 

 providing of plantation maps, 

 the employment of capable, con- 

 scientious men, and attention 

 to all details of the work on the 

 part of overseers will, in large 

 establishments, go a long way 

 toward preventing the occur- 

 rence of mistakes and the con- 

 sequent origination of suppos- 

 edly new varieties or the mixing 

 of old ones. Both budwood and 

 cions should be chosen from 

 well matured wood of not more 

 than one season's growth. Us- 

 ually it is best to select from wood of the last one or two 

 growths matured just previous to the time of cutting, bear- 



Fig. 44. Different kinds of 

 bndwood . A, angled wood. 

 B, angled, with thorns. C, 

 round. 



