66 BULLETIN 815, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
as to allow free access to the limbs in which the buds are to be placed. 
Usually from three to five strong limbs should be selected which can 
furnish the framework for the new top. ‘The buds should be in- 
serted in the limbs from 1 to 2 feet from the forks. Two buds are 
Fig. 14.—Unproductive lemon tree of the Villa Franca variety top-worked with buds of the Lisbon 
strain. The photograph was taken one year after the budding was done and soon afterwards the main 
framework limbs were again cut back and only one growth from the rebuds wasleft on eachlimb. This 
tree and the one shown in figure 13 are in the same orchard and were top-worked at the same time. 
generally placed in each limb, and as one of these buds is likely to 
develop if this method is dolled a perfect stand usually can be ob- 
tained. In about 10 days or two weeks after the buds have been 
inserted they will form a union with the limbs and the wounds will 
