BUD VAPJATTOlSr IIST THE EUREKA LEMON. 

 THE SELECTION AND CARE OF BUD WOOD. 



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Bud wood should bo taken only from trees whose behavior has been 

 recorded by means of performance records. The selection of the par- 

 ent trees should bo based not only upon their performance records but 

 also upon intimate tree knowledge developed from careful observation 



Fig. 22.— Nursery trees grown from fruit-bearing Icnum tiud wood of the Eureka strain, two years after 

 budding, showing the vigorous growth and early fruiting tendency of trees propagated from such buds. 



and experience with the variety, the strain, and the individual trees. 

 Fruit-bearing bud wood should be taken only . from superior trees. 

 The buds from this immature bud wood make as satisfactory growth 

 as those taken from larger growth or more mature wood. The lemons 

 attached to each bud stick indicate the type of fruit propagated and 

 insure so far as possible against the use of buds from sporting or un- 



