48 PEACH CTTLTUEB. 



BUDS EXPRESSED. 



It sometimes happens that nurserymen, but more fre- 

 quently amateurs, wish to send buds of some rare variety 

 by mail or express, and, by proper care in packing, they 

 may be safely sent hundreds of miles in this way. 



When this is desired, the buds should, in the first place, 

 be taken oflF and prepared in the manner above described. 

 If the distance is not more than two hundred miles, and 

 on a railroad, a wrapping of moist moss, with au outer 

 coat of thick cloth, will be quite sufficient. But if the 

 distance be great, the best way is to procure a hollow tin 

 cylinder, air-tight, and open at one end, and place the 

 buds in this, filling the vessel about half full of buds, 

 then fill the interstices with fine, clean sawdust, saturated 

 with water. Now put on the cap, and either solder or 

 seal it on, so that it will be air-tight. In this way buds 

 may be transported five hundred miles or more. The 

 vessel should never be filled full, as the buds swell in the 

 Dox, and cannot be taken out without injury. 



CHAPTER Vin. 



BUDDING. 



The Svdding is done in August and September. The 

 length of the season varies, being shorter in a northern 

 than in a southern latitude. On the Delaware Peninsula 

 it is about six weeks from and after the first of August. 

 But sometimes it commences sooner, and is prolonged 

 even into October. As a rule, budding may begin as 

 soon as the buds are large enough to cut from the twig, 

 and continue as long as the sap flows freely. Young, 



