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THE RUK.AL NEW-YORKER 
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Ruralisms 
NEW METHOD OF BUDDING NUT TREES. 
Part II. 
Buds taken from the scion in this 
manner are not “chip” buds, strictly 
speaking. They are cut much after the 
same manner as the ordinary shield- 
bud, except that the long cut is made 
from above downwards instead of from 
below upwards. It is easier, simpler 
and less tedious than grafting, or any 
of the older methods of budding nut 
trees. Usually the buds grow off with 
better unions, and the same amount of 
wood goes a great deal farther than in 
grafting or in other methods of bud¬ 
ding. It is better, of course, to do the 
work as soon as one can, after sap be¬ 
gins to rise in stocks; though I have 
often had excellent results in the use 
of budding wood more than 60 days 
after it was cut from the trees on which 
it grew. Another advantage of the 
Spring-set bud is that it has the whole 
growing season before it; and when the 
work is well done the union of bud with 
stock is so perfect that one is often 
unable to distinguish the bud-growth 
from a natural shoot on the stock. 
Buds put in after this manner com¬ 
monly begin to swell in 10 days or two 
weeks; if they da not show signs of life 
in three weeks it is well to put in other 
FINISHED WRAPPING AND GROWTH 
OF BUD-SHOOT. Fio. 40. 
buds. W hen working young trees in the 
nursery row, it is well enough to set the 
first bud eight to 10 inches above the 
ground. If it fails to grow, another can 
be put in immediately below, and so on 
until successful. This will avoid scars 
on the stock below the bud-shoot. With 
beginning of Spring growth, the strings 
on the wrappers sometimes bind the 
bark on bud and stack. This will show 
plainly. It is time then to loosen up the 
strings, and wind them on again, but 
not in the grooves they have made. 
When the bud is tied on with cloth 
strips, as before mentioned, this cutting 
into the bark is less than when cotton 
twine is used for tying. 
After the bud-shoot has fairly started, 
the string may be unwound from so 
much of the wrapper as covers the bud ; 
but it should remain tight on that por¬ 
tion of the wrapper which is entirely 
above the bud, as shown in the illus¬ 
tration, Fig. 40, A shows wrapper tied 
on; B, bud-shoot at end of season. As 
soon as the bud shows unmistakable 
signs of life, the stock should be cut 
off six or eight inches above it. The 
wrappers need not be removed, but may 
remain during the season. They will 
afford a needed protection against wind 
and sun, rain and chilly nights. The 
eyelets in the waxed cloths will stretch 
as the bud-shoot grows. It will be 
necessary to keep watch on natural 
shoots from the stock both above and 
below the bud, and these should be 
rubbed off every week or 10 days. In 
this part of the country, the six or eight 
inch stub left projecting above the bud 
is a support to it in times of high winds, 
especially where standing trees have 
been top-worked, or budded some dis¬ 
tance above ground. 
A sharp pocketknife answers as well 
as any for cutting and fitting buds into 
stocks. Strips of old domestic from 
worn underwear, in six-inch widths, 
folded and dipped into a plate of hot, 
melted beeswax will furnish material 
for wrappers. The hot wax strikes in¬ 
stantly into the folds of cloth. The 
strip may then be held up by one end 
over the tin plate until the surplus of 
wax drips out. When cool, the cloth is 
torn into strips about an inch in width, 
then folded into small oblong squares, 
into which holes or eyelets are punched. 
Since first calling attention of Southern 
horticulturists to this method of bud¬ 
ding, reports of gratifying success 
have come from widely separated lo¬ 
calities. For walnuts, pecans, persim¬ 
mons, and also for working the finer 
varieties of pecan on the hickory, it has 
given general satisfaction. For apples 
and pears, peaches and plums, it serves 
equally well. These latter are easily 
budded in Summer, to be sure, but there 
are times when we would like to utilize 
the cut-off tops of such trees, when 
transplanting. From a single rare tree, 
buds enough may be taken from a cut¬ 
off top to give one a good start of the 
variety. By top-working such buds on 
large trees, fruit may be had a season 
or so earlier than from the transplanted 
tree; and it saves ever so much time in 
testing new varieties of apples and 
pears. The same is true of pecans and 
walnuts. Buds from cut-off tops of a 
lot of young pecans transplanted in 
Spring of 1907, were top-worked on 
native trees from one to three inches in 
diameter, and some of them made a 
showing of first fruits in 1909, while 
nearly all of them give promise of fruit 
this year. This is not intended to super¬ 
sede other methods of budding, but it 
does enlarge opportunities for the work, 
besides making it easier and more pleas¬ 
ant, CHARLES L. EDWARDS. 
Texas. '_ 
THE PRICE OF GREENHOUSE LETTUCE. 
F. II., Johnstoicn, ra .—I built a green¬ 
house last Fall, measuring 28 by 70 feet, 
for the forcing of lettuce. The ground was 
not prepared, and I am not doing very well 
with the lettuce. Five new greenhouses 
have been built here this Fall, and the 
market seems to be overstocked. The whole¬ 
sale price is now 12 cents per pound, and 
the demand is very light. Can lettuce be 
produced with reasonable profit at this 
price? 
Ans. —Lettuce may be grown and is 
grown at a fair profit when the price is 
considerably less than 12 cents a pound. 
One large grower at Cleveland, Ohio, 
claims that it may be grown with some 
profit for seven cents a pound, and this 
is about the price at which the bulk of 
the crop is now being sold in the large 
producing districts of Ohio, Illinois and 
Michigan. Nearly all the men who 
grow lettuce for market at this figure 
are very extensive producers, and the 
cost is, of course, very much less than 
in smaller houses. A leading grower at 
Erie, Pa., is now selling lettuce in Pitts¬ 
burg at eight cents per pound, while he 
and his neighbors, who are organized, 
are able to hold the price in Erie to 12 
cents. Growers of Grand Rapids lettuce 
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per pound, depends' entirely upon the 
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The Rural New-Yorker stated editorially. Sept. 19th, 1908:—'The Rural Grounds now appear to be free from 
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Dept 
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