36 BUDDING OF APPLES. 



day, although in some nurseries in the country, 

 it is still continued, and, of course they think 

 it best : hut I will here give my reasons for not 

 approving of the general practice of budding 

 apples. 



The argument of those who approve of bud- 

 ding apples is, they generally grow taller for 

 standards the first summer, there being but one 

 shoot for the stock to support : granted ; but 

 this is often the cause of crooked, weak, stem- 

 med trees, for having run up so tall, they fre- 

 quently throw out shoots at the top the following 

 summer, which are often too heavy for the stem 

 to support, and they consequently bend down and 

 grow crooked. 



Another very great objection to budding 

 apples is the canker, for buds are generally 

 untied late in summer, and there is naturally a 

 wound in the stock, which the most scientific 

 budder cannot prevent ; and this is the season 

 of the year, of all others the most dangerous, 

 for the insect is fond of a wound where they can 

 enter for their winter quarters, and that spot of 



