Propagation of the Pecan 



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Figure 17. — A home-made double blade 

 budding-knife. 



seven-eighths of an inch apart, should be made with a fine- 

 toothed saw perpendicular to the one and one-half inch 

 surface of the timber and should extend down five inches 

 from one end. Tavo holes should be drilled one inch and three 

 inches respectively 

 from the same end, 

 through which the 

 three - sixteenth - inch 

 stove bolts should be 

 inserted. These holes 

 are drilled in a line 



drawn through the center of the one-inch surface of the 

 timber and are perpendicular to it. The surface between 

 the bolts on the one-and-one-fourth-inch side of the piece of 

 timber should be cut down to a depth of about one-fourth 

 inch. The length of the piece removed should not be as great 

 as that of the safety-razor blades, which should be inserted in 

 the two longitudinal cuts between the two bolts, and should be 

 clamped in securely by tightening the bolts (Fig. 16). 



A budding-knife very popular with the nurserymen is rep- 

 resented in Fig. 17. 

 These knives are 

 made by riveting two 

 one-bladed rigid 

 knives, — two ordi- 

 nary budding-knives 

 will serve, — to a wooden handle, so as to make the blades 

 parallel and about one inch apart. 



There are a number of budding-tools on the market and 

 the propagator should select the type which best suits his 

 purpose. (See Figs. 18, 19 and 20.) 



Figure IS. — A budding tool. 



