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AMERICAN HOME GARDEX. 



no growtli may take place before sirring. Orange-trees and 

 other green-house plants, being calculated to grow right on un- 

 der protection, arc exceptions, and may be budded in spring, or 

 summer, or winter. 



AFTEE-TEEATMENT. 

 Fig. 107. 



('.. The bnil united to tlie stock, and the bandage loosened and removed in due time. 



b. A neglected bud, the bandage having cut deeply into tlie stock, causing uuuatural en- 

 largement above and below, with a growth of stem-suckers. 



r. The bud in spring, the stock cut doi\Ti about four inches above it, and all the natural 

 or stock buds removed. 



(/. The bud growing, and tied up to the shank of the stock. 



I . The bud in spring, the stock being cut at once down to the point of the bud. 



/'. The hud growing naturallj* upright, hut staked to secure it against danger of injury in 

 its early stages. 



In about two weeks after the budding you may loosen the 

 banda ge, and before winter, or whenever it seems to bo cutting 



