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OEAXGE CULTURE. 



Another point, and one not generally known, (we have onW 

 learned it ourselves by personal experience) is this : Alwavs in- 

 sert your bud on the north or northeast side of the stock ; glance at 

 the shadows cast by our hot summer sun during three-fourths of" 

 the day, and you will see the reason why — the southern and west- 

 ern portions of the stock being all that time exposed to its scorch- 

 ing rays, and insuring the broiling or frying to a brown cinder 

 of your tender scion. 



Still another thing to be attended to, before beginning the 

 actual operation of budding, is the mode of wrapping after the 

 insertion of the scion. 



Some people give no protection to the bud at all, and these 

 slovenly folks lose three-fourths of their work, as they deserve to 

 do ; others put a little daub of grafting wax over the edges of the 

 cut, and these scarcely less lazy people lose at least one-half of 

 their time and labor, and those scions that do " take " do not 

 grow with half the vigor that they would, if properly treated at 

 the outset. 



But there are still other persons, wise in their generation, 

 who put faith in those grand old sayings that 



" Whatever's worth the doing-. 

 Is worth the doing well,'' 



and a little trouble in the present saves much trouble in the fu- 

 ture," and these sensible individuals before proceeding to bud 

 their trees, prepare a quantity of strips of strong muslin or cali- 

 co, about a quarter of an inch v\-ide ; dip them into melting graft- 

 ing wax, and take them out with little sticks, hang them up to 

 dry. They will keep good for years if it need be. They are then 

 ready to wrap lightly around the scion after its insertion in the 

 stock, and if the end and edges are rubbed down firmly with the 

 finger, they will not even require tying. By this simple method 

 the scion and stock are held securely in close contact, and air 

 and water are excluded while the process of junction is going on; 

 a necessity, as we have already seen, to its success. 



To illustrate the difference, smearing with wax and binding 

 with waxed strips, we quote from a writer in a New York Rural 

 publication; he bound a part of his scions with strips and on others 

 used only wax. 



