NEW AND EXPEDITIOUS MODE OF BUDDING. ^{j 



of introducing a branch of another variety, with great ex- 

 pedition, may possible be acceptable to many readers of 

 the Horticultural Transactions. 



The luxuriant shoots of peach and nectarine trees are Expeditious 

 generally barren; but the lateral shoots emitted, in the™^^;^;;f^^^^^;^S- 

 same season, by them, are often productive of fruit, par- 

 ticularly if treated in the manner recommended by me ia 

 the Horticultural Transactions of 1808*. In the experi- 

 ments I have there described, the bearing wood was afford- 

 ed by the natural buds of the luxuriant shoots; but I 

 thought it probable, that such might as readily be afforded 

 by the inserted buds of another variety, under appropriate 

 management. I therefore, as early in the month of June, 

 of the year 1808, as the luxuriant shoots of my peach 

 trees were grown sufficiently firm to permit the operation, 

 inserted buds of other varieties into them, employing two 

 distinct ligatures to hold the buds in their places. One li- 

 gature was first placed above the bud inserted; and upon 

 the transverse section through the bark : the other, which 

 had no further office than that of securing the bud, was 

 applied in the usual way. As soon as the buds (which 

 never fail under the preceding circumstances) had attached 

 themselves, the ligatures last applied were taken off: but 

 the others were suffered to remain. The passage of the sap 

 jipwards was in consequence much obstructed, and the in- 

 serted buds began to vegetate strongly in July : and when 

 these had afforded shoots about four inches long, the re- 

 maining ligatures were taken off, to permit the excess of 

 sap to pass on ; and the young shoots were nailed to the 

 wall. Being there properly exposed to light, their wood 

 ripened well, and afforded blossoms in the succeeding 

 spring: this would, I do not doubt, have afforded fruit | 

 but that, leaving my residence at Elton, for this place, 

 I removed my trees; and the whole of their blossoms, ia 

 the last spring, proved, in consequence, equally abortive. 



* Page 38: or Journ.vol. xviii;, p. 196. 



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