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sowing. In peaches, the bud will produce a shoot 3 to 5 feet 

 high the same season the buds are set, so that marketable 

 budded trees can be had complete in one season from the seed. 

 A different kind of early summer budding is sometimes per- 

 formed on apples and other fruit-trees. In this case, the 

 stocks are one or two years old from the transplanting, the 

 same as for common budding, but dor- 

 mant buds are used. These buds are 

 cu t the previous fall or winter in the 

 same way as cions, and when spring ap- 

 proaches they are put on ice in saw- 

 FIG. 144. The operation dust, sand or moss and kept until the 

 stocks are large enough to receive them. 



The particular advantage of this method is the distributing 

 of the labor of budding over a longer season, thereby avoiding 

 the rush of the regular budding time. It is also a very useful 

 means of top-working trees, for the buds start the same season 

 in which they are set, and a whole season is thereby saved as 

 compared with the common summer or fall budding. 



Budders usually carry a number of "sticks" with them when 

 they enter the nursery. These may be taken in the pocket, 

 or some budders carry four or five sticks in the hand. The 

 budder follows a row throughout its length, passing over those 

 trees that are too small to work. It is an old mode to rest on 

 one knee while budding, as in Fig. 144, but some prefer to use a 

 low stool or to sit. It is a common practice, in some nursery 

 regions, for budders to have a low box with half of the top 

 covered to serve as a seat, and the box is used for carrying 

 buds, string, knives and whetstone. The tying is usually done 

 by a boy, who should follow close behind the budder in order 

 that the buds shall not dry out. An expert budder will set 

 from 1000 to 3000 buds a day, in good stock, and with a boy 

 (or two of them for the latter speed) to tie. Peach stocks are 

 more rapidly budded than most others, as the bark is firm 



