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may be broken off. When the scions and wedges are in 

 place it will be necessary to cover all of the cut surfaces 

 with soft grafting wax. 



The wax may be melted in a tin pan at the house and 

 carried to the orchard if not too far away, or the pan may 

 be set on a hot stone and will then stay melted for a con- 

 siderable time. The melted wax can be most easily 

 spread over the cut surfaces of the graft by means of a 

 little paddle, and needs to be spread all over the cut 

 surfaces of the s'cion and stub, although it is not necessary 

 that the bark be also waxed. This waxing is done to pre- 

 vent the cut surfaces from drying out and thereby prevent- 

 ing the scion and stub from uniting. The wax need not be 

 disturbed at any time thereafter. 



If both or all the scions inserted on a stub should grow, 

 cut all of them off but one. Only one scion should be 

 allowed to grow, as more than one at a place will cause a 

 bad fork that will split easily. 



Budding 



Budding is an operation done upon any woody plant 

 for the purpose of increasing some desirable variety that 

 cannot be obtained from seed. Its object is identical with 

 grafting", and differs from it in that in grafting a scion 

 bearing several buds is used, while in budding the scion 

 consists of but one bud, with a small bit of the bark to 

 which it is attached. All of our tree fruits can be repro- 

 duced with more or less ease by budding, while the peach 

 is propagated in this manner exclusively, as it does not 

 unite very readily when grafted. 



This operation will be described as generally practiced 

 on the peach, although the practice will differ not at all 

 for propagating apples, pears, or any of the stone fruits. 



Stock for budding is generally the one-year seedlings 

 obtained by stratifying the seeds over winter and planting 

 out the following spring. The seedlings will be large 

 enough by June in the South for budding, and by August 



