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adheres to the stock, it is worthless. Advantage can be taken, 

 when cutting the tyings, to rebud any stocks which have failed. 

 If the bud should begin to grow, 

 because of a warm and wet fall or 

 other reasons, there is little remedy 

 except perhaps to head the shoot 

 back if it should become long 

 enough If the stocks are protected 

 by snow during winter, some of the 

 buds at the base of the shoot may 

 pass the cold in safety. 



The next spring the stock should 

 be cut off just above the bud (Fig* 

 66), in order to throw the entire 

 force of the plant into the bud. If 

 the root is strong and the soil good, 

 the bud will grow two or three feet 

 the first year ; or peaches and 

 cherries will grow from two to three 

 times that height. All sprouts 

 should be kept rubbed off the stock, and the bud should be 

 trained to a single stem. In some weak and crooked growers, 

 the new shoot must be tied, and some propagators in such cases 

 cut off the stock five or six inches above the bud and let it serve 

 as a stake to which to tie. The stock, of course, must not be 

 allowed to grow. Late in the season the stock is cut down close 

 to the bud, as in Fig. 66. Peaches and some other fruits are 

 sold after having made one season's growth from the bud, but 

 pears, apples, and most other trees are not often sold until the 

 second or third year. 



"June budding" is a term applied to the budding of stocks in 

 early summer while they are yet growing rapidly. It is em- 

 ployed mostly at the south where the stocks can be grown to 

 sufficient size by the last of June or first of July. Small stocks 

 are usually employed those ranging from one-fourth to one- 

 third inch being preferred. A few strong leaves should be left 

 on the stock below the bud, and after the bud has "stuck" the 

 N. B -6. 



|Fig. 65. The bud tied. 



