BUD TRANSFERENCE AND ITS EFFECTS ON FRUIT. 



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BUD TRANSFERENCE AND ITS EFFECTS ON FRUIT. 

 By the Rev. Gordon Salmon. 

 [Eead March 24, 1897.] 



It has been wisely and well said that there is nothing new under 

 the sun, and it has been stated again and again with equal truth 

 that new methods are as old as the hills, a seeming inconsistency, 

 which, as I am not as old as the hills, I can neither substantiate 

 nor disprove ; but if the proof of the pudding is in the eating, 

 I can very easily prove that old methods, at any rate, may be 

 made to produce new results, and that, if so, the results are 

 worth our consideration. We hear a good deal in these days 

 about the introduction of practical chemistry into farm cropping, 

 and that the cry is if the farmer of the immediate future is to 

 prosper, he must be content to march with the times, or other- 

 wise be no less content to lag behind in the stirring push for 

 progress in the intensely interesting position of a cultivator 

 of the soil. Competition for the prize of supremacy is so keen, 

 so thoroughly racy, that in order to hold our own we must, with 

 ever-increasing energy, guide our hands more by the head than 

 we have been in the habit of doing, and less by a sort of rule of 

 thumb. Now what applies to farming, with equal force applies 

 to her beautiful twin sister gardening, and the phases of work 

 left to the enthusiast deepen in interest, through the practical 

 results that may be obtained from the simplest of new methods. 

 I am an enthusiast, and that by this semi-inspiration which 

 enthusiasm means, I am quite content to stand or fall by the 

 happy or unhappy success of fortuitous results. My subject then 

 naturally divides itself into three parts : — 

 1st. Its methods. 



2nd. The class of subjects on which the methods are applied. 

 3rd. Their results. 



My subject then for development is essentially budding. I was 

 first led to push my past and present researches to their present 

 standpoint, through my ever deepening love of Nature, with the 

 hope of reaching something that might be of practical use to my 



