BUDDING WALNUTS 



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and given a chance in orchard form ; for a tree which is to have in 

 the orchard from sixteen hundred to thirty-six hundred square feet, 

 can not be too good, either as to root or top. 



Budding the Walnut. In working on the native California 

 seedling stocks, Mr. Clowes, of Stockton, buds by the common 

 method, removing the wood from the inside of the plate of bark, as 

 advised for the orange. Twig buds as used with the olive are also 



Four months' growth of Walnut Grafts J. B. Neff, Anaheim. 



successful, and ring budding works well on shoots of a year's 

 growth, which have at least attained the thickness of the middle 

 finger. Mr. Gillet advises that the buds should be set at the base 

 of these shoots where the wood is perfectly round. The bandage 

 should pass above and below the bud so that the bark under it may 

 be pressed down close upon the stock, and this is more surely gained 

 by shaving off the base of the leaf stem, below the bud, about to the 

 point where it would separate when the leaf naturally falls off. 

 Mr. A. W. Keith, of Selma, has hit upon a very 



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