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too long, however, the plants become pot-bound and lose their 

 vigor ; hence it is desirable to graft them when young and get 

 them into the open ground as soon as possible. Seeds planted 

 in June and July make strong plants ready for inarching by 

 November. December 

 and January are good 

 months in which to in- 

 arch, and such plants 

 should be ready to set 

 out in the field by the 

 following July. 



Inarching, as practiced 

 in other countries, differs 

 in no essentials from the 

 Indian method above 

 described. 



Shield-budding is the 

 method employed by 

 nurserymen in Florida. 

 In the hands of a skillful 

 propagator who has made 

 a careful study of this 

 method, it gives excellent 

 results. In inexperi- 

 enced hands it usually 

 proves altogether unsat- 

 isfactory. Particularly 

 is experience required to 

 enable the propagator to 

 recognize the proper type of bud wood, and to know when the 

 stock plants are in the proper state of vegetative activity. By 

 careful experimenting with stock plants and budwood of 

 different conditions of growth throughout a season or two, a 

 good propagator should be able to bud mangos successfully; 



FIG. 11. Shield-budding the mango. On 

 the left, a bud properly inserted ; next, an 

 inserted bud wrapped with a strip of waxed 

 cloth ; above the knife-point, a properly cut 

 bud ; and on the right, budwood of desirable 

 character. 



