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FRUIT GARDEN COMPANION. 



for every thing should be done to form it in a vig- 

 orous state. 



Whilst I am on the subject of buds it will be 

 well to say a few words on inoculating trees, 

 by inserting those from one to another under the 

 bark or outer covering. To succeed in this opera- 

 tion, a nicety is required in the choice of the part 

 to be inoculated and the selection and management 



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oftae hud ; the time that this operation can be 

 done to the best purpose is when the young wood is 

 so ripened, that the bud is plump, and the sap of 

 the stock is flowing briskly ; for, unless a speedy 

 and free union is effected between the bark of the 

 bud and the alburnum of the stock, a failure must 

 certainly happen in a short time. If buds are in- 

 serted early into very luxuriant trees it often hap- 

 pens that they make young wood in the fall to the in- 

 jury of the process ; this happens owing to a bud of 

 a weaker kind of tree being inserted into a stronger, 

 which feeds it with a superabundant flow of sap, and 

 hence causes vegetation at an improper season. 



Art. 5. — On the Flower or Blossom. 



Some attention should be paid by the cultivator 

 to the flowers of fruit trees ; because from them 

 comes the fruit, and unless the blossoms are strong 

 and perfect, the fruit will be imperfect ; for we of- 

 ten see in stone fruit for instance, that it is destitute 

 of the stone, which is owing to the flower setting 

 its fruit without its organs of generation being per- 

 fected by the farina ; in this case it is destitute of 

 its proper qualities and flavor. It is quite requisite 

 that the flower buds of trees should be well matured 

 in the fall in order that they form all the different 



