BUD VARIATION" IN" THE EUREKA LEMON. 
THE SELECTION AND CARE OF BUD WOOD. 
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Bud wood should be taken only from trees whose behavior has been 
recorded by means of performance records. The selection of the par- 
ent trees should be based not only upon their performance records but 
also upon intimate tree knowledge developed from careful observation 
Fig. 22.— Nursery trees grown from fruit-bearing lemon bud wood of the Eureka strain, two years after 
budding, showing the vigorous growth and early fruiting tendency of trees propagated from such buds. 
and experience with the variety, the strain, and the individual trees. 
Fruit-bearing bud wood should be taken only from superior trees. 
The buds from this immature bud wood make as satisfactory growth 
as those taken from larger growth or more mature wood. The lemons 
attached to each bud stick indicate the type of fruit propagated and 
insure so far as possible against the use of budsfrom sporting or un- 
