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JUNE BUDDING. 



Fig. 3. Bud entering matrix. 



drawing the edge of the blade up the back side of 

 the stocl-; across the tie, severing every strand. The 

 top of stock should be cut oft at same time, just 



above the bud, as 

 shown in Fig. 5. In a 

 few days after the top 

 is cut off, tlie sprouts 

 starting fro m below 

 and around the bud 

 should be gt-adually 

 ■ taken off first just about 

 the bud. As the bud 

 grows into a scion and 

 gets to be some six 

 inches long, all the 

 sprouts from the stock 

 should be removed, the 

 last to come off being 

 on the side opposite the 

 bud. Two to three 

 times going over are 

 necessary to insure 

 best success in this part of the work. 



The peach is more often June-budded than any 

 other tree, and in this climate, with everything fa- 

 vorable, a tree four to five feet high can often be 



MORE ABOUT J 



Although the practice of budding young seedlings 

 of the peach and some other fruits in the early part 

 of the first summer has been carried on for more 

 than fifteen years, it is yet comparatively a new 

 thing. The objects to be gained are the production 

 of a budded tree the first year, thus saving the ex- 

 pense of one year's growth in the nursery ; the ad- 

 vantage of transporting a small tree instead of a 

 large one ; and enabling the nurserymen to dig the 

 trees with a larger proportion of root, thus lessen- 

 ing the danger of loss in transplanting. The peach 

 is perhaps the most easily operated upon of any of 

 the fruits, as the seedlings grow very rapidly and 

 make a stock sufficiently large to insert buds upon 

 in time for them to grow and mature healthy wood 

 before fall. 



Although the term "June budding" is commonly 

 used, my experience has led me to think it should 

 be more properly called "July budding," as nearly 

 all my successful experiments have been made in 

 Kansas during the early part of the latter month. 



The process is indeed very simple, as all that is 

 recpiired is a healthy, vigorous stock and buds which 

 are sufficiently developed to grow after having been 

 inserted. This, of course, must be left to the dis- 

 cretion of the operator, and "bud sticks" will have 



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Fig. 4. Bud inserted and tied- 



produced in one season, equal to northern one-year 

 trees with two-year root. Such stock is very smooth 

 and beautiful. 



I have put fine new tops on two and three-year- 

 old peach, by cutting back in winter and May-bud- 

 ding the young shoots. The danger in this lies in 

 removing sprouts and top 

 of budded shoots too 

 rapidly, causing the entire 

 stock to sicken and die for 

 lack of foliage. 



The plum trees grown 

 from Marianna cuttings 

 can be June-budded suc- 

 cessfully to other plum or 

 to peach and apricot. 



I see no reason why 

 other fruits, and some 

 shrubs, may not be suc- 

 cessfully June-budded, if 

 the stocks can be gotten 

 in condition early enough 

 to get the buds started before the intense heat and 

 drouth of July and August come on ; these condi- 

 tions make success difficult to attain. 



Di-nison., Texas. T. V. Munson. 



UNE BUDDING. 



to be taken, of which a large portion of the tip end 

 will have to be cut off as too tender or immature. 



The buds are inserted in the usual manner, but 

 the wrapping should be of some rather elastic ma- 

 terial which will readily yield to the rapid growth of 

 the tender stock. I have found strips of old mus- 

 lin very good, although 

 I have used bass-wood 

 bark with a reasonable 

 degree of success. As 

 soon as the buds are 

 set the top of the tree 

 should be cut back se- 

 verely, or the stem cut 

 partly off about four 

 inches above the bud, 

 and bent over in order 

 to check the growth of 

 the top and force the 

 bud into growth. If 

 the stock is cut off Fig. 5 

 immediately, the re- 

 maining part is liable to die. As soon as the bud 

 has grown a few inches in length the entire top may 

 be cut away close to the shoot. 



IVas /nits- toil. H. E. Van Deman. 



Stock cut back, and tie re- 

 moved, to start bud. 



