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Midsummer and early Fall, or freshly dug one-season "runner" plants 

 for Spring setting. Currants and Gooseberries are usually sold as two- 

 year plants grown from cuttings, though sometimes one- year and three- 

 year plants are called for. The last, unless root pruned or transplanted, 

 are less desirable than younger plants. 



In the South "June-budded" tree fruits are popular. The buds 

 of desired varieties set in June grow the same season and the trees may 

 be planted that Autumn five months after the operation or the 

 following Spring. In the North such trees are imported from Southern 



Fig. 25. Short trunks and wide spreading branches favor strength and admission of 

 light, hence finer and better colored fruit 



nurseries for Spring but not for Fall planting. In the North, however, 

 Northern grown trees are more in demand. The buds set in late 

 Summer do not start to grow until the following Spring and they do 

 not make salable trees until about fourteen months after the budding 

 has been done. If fully mature they may be set in the Fall, otherwise 

 not until the Spring eighteen or nineteen months after being budded. 

 In all cases, even though there may be an actual difference of twelve 

 months, the trees are called "one-year" or "two-year," etc. 

 . There is no difference of opinion as to the age at which Peach trees 



