FRUIT CULTURE. 



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or lateness at which 

 a species is budded. 

 Those fulfilling their 

 growth early in the 

 season are budded 

 early, and those that 

 grow until the autumn 

 are budded late. Thus 

 the season extends 

 over a period exceed- 

 ing two months. In 

 all cases, the following 

 conditions are neces- 

 sary : — 



1. The buds must 

 be perfectly devel- 



'bped in the axils of 

 the leaves on the 

 young shoots intend- 

 ed to bud from. 



2. The bark must 

 raise freely from the 

 stocks to be budded. 



The implements 

 needed, are apruning- 

 knife, to dress the 

 stocks by removing 

 ^any branches that 

 may be in the way of 

 inserting the bud ; and a budding-knife, to take off the buds and 

 make the incisions in the stock. The latter should have a very 

 thin, smooth, and keen edge, 



The strings for tying in the buds are either taken frombasswood 

 mats, or they are prepared from the bark of the basswood. Young 

 shoots, in the condition described, are cut below the lowest plump 

 bud ; arid there should be left an inch or two of the base of every 

 shoot, where the buds are very close together ; then the leaves are 

 stripped off, leaving half of each leaf-stalk to handle the bud by. 



When a considerable number of shoots are cut at once, they 

 should be stripped of the leaves and wrapped in a damp cloth as 

 soon as cut ; and they may Joe preserved in good order for ten days , 

 by keeping them in a cool cellar among damp sawdust, or closely 



Fig. 1485. — Layering by Elevation. 



