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THE DIFFERENT BUDDING OPERATIONS 



year from bud while the slower growing ones will require 

 two, and in a very few cases, three. 



Budding Practice in Large Nurseries. Nursery com- 

 panies that have to bud a good many thousand trees an- 

 nually have to work out a very careful system in handling 



FIG. 31. Budders and Wrappers in Greenings' Nursery. Munroe, 



Mich. 



the work in order to keep the varieties from getting mixed. 

 The usual method in such cases is to divide the work up 

 into numerous divisions and let one person continue on the 

 same operation throughout the season. The one who 

 cuts buds will do nothing else; the budders do the budding 

 only; the tyers nothing but tying and so on. Only one 

 variety is budded at a time, and before a new one is started 



