PROPAGATION 



II 



These ties must be examined from time to time, 

 and should be removed as soon as the buds "take." 

 Within about a month, if not removed, they will 

 begin • to choke the stocks which continue to ex- 

 pand in diameter rapidly at this season. The tie is 

 cut by running a sharp knife longitudinally up the 

 stem of the stock on the side opposite the bud. 



The buds should grow fast to the stocks within 

 two to four weeks, but should remain dormant 

 through the first winter. 

 They should , start into 

 growth the following spring. 

 As soon as their growth is 

 assured the stocks should 

 be smoothly cut off about 

 an inch above the growing 

 bud. Care is required 

 throughout the first year to 

 protect the nursling bud 

 from the encroachments of 

 the stock. Very often other 

 buds start into growth from 

 the stock and would soon 

 smother the strange bud so 

 carefully grafted in. Of 

 course, all such seedling shoots must be promptly 

 rubbed off. 



Budded peach trees should always be trans- 

 planted to their permanent positions in garden or 

 orchard after the buds have grown one year. Strong 

 growing varieties of plums and cherries should also 

 be transplanted at one year old. Budded apples on 

 good soil are best transplanted at one year from the 

 bud, though the commoner practice is to grow them 

 in the nursery rows to the age of two years. Like- 



FIG. 9 — SHIELD BUDDING 



