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BUDDING PEACH AND CHERRY SEED¬ 
LINGS. 
J. M., McKees Rocks, Pa. — 1 . Can you tell 
me how to hud peach and cherry trees? I 
bought a bushel of fine peaches and put 
them up; the stones were thrown in a hole 
to get them out of the road. Last Spring 
a lot of little peach trees came up, and 
now they have made a nice growth. I am 
thinking of planting a little peach orchard 
around the house, but have heard that 
these trees will not produce as nice fruit 
as the trees which produced them unless I 
bud them. I have several peach trees two 
years old. 2. I also have a few seedling 
cherry trees. 3 . I have a ‘large apple tree, 
the only one left of my apple orchard, be¬ 
cause 1 had to cut it down. The apples 
used to be all stolen—in fact, the fence was 
always knocked down to get them. I would 
like to move this tree up near the house 
if it can be done, because it might as well 
be dead as stand where it is. The fruit 
is all taken, even when it is green. Are 
there any particular rules in moving a 
tree ? 
Ans. —1. J. M. should have budded his 
seedling peaches last August, but, as he 
did not do it at that time, and as he 
wants to plant them into an orchard, he 
can transplant them early in Spring of 
1910, planting each seedling where he 
wants it to remain permanently, and next 
August, 1910, bud them with the va¬ 
rieties that he wants. Many varieties of 
peach will nearly reproduce themselves 
from seed. This is especially true of 
the Smock and Crawfords, but the odds 
are all against a seedling producing a 
desirable freestone fruit, and in favor 
of a small clingstone; hence it is best 
to bud the seedlings with good varieties 
that do well in the vicinity where they 
are to be grown. The bud should be 
taken from the current year’s growth, 
while it is still in a growing condition, 
so that the bark will peel from the limb; 
when taking the bud from it use a sharp 
knife to cut the bud from limb. Com¬ 
mence about one-fourth inch below the 
eye or bud, and cut through to the cen¬ 
ter of the limb and upward one-half inch 
above the bud; then cut across the bark 
and snap it off from the limb free from 
wood by a gentle pressure of the finger 
and thumb. This will give a bud with 
bark three-quarters of an inch long. 
Make a cut as near the ground as pos¬ 
sible on the seedling by drawing the 
knife upward about one-half inch and 
across this cut; make a cross cut or T 
and open the top of cut a little with the 
point of the knife. Into this T insert 
the point of bud, and push it down with 
side of thumb placed against the leaf 
stem of the bud, until the upper end of 
the bud is below the cross cut or T; 
then wrap with raffia two wraps below 
the eye, and bring the raffia on up above 
and close to the eye, being careful not 
to cover the eye with the raffia, and 
cover all the top of bud, making sure 
that the cross or T is covered and closed, 
else water will get under the bud and 
prevent its healing or forming a union 
with the stock. In 10 or 12 days after 
budding, the raffia should be removed. 
The following Spring cut the top off the 
seedling close down to the bud with a 
sharp knife or pruning shears. When 
growth starts in the Spring many suckers 
will start with the bud. When three or 
four inches high rub these suckers off, 
and as more may appear later remove 
them also, as they will rob the bud of 
sap and hinder its growth. Be careful 
not to break off the bud when removing 
the suckers. The two-year-old peach, 
if seedlings, can be budded in the limbs, 
putting at least two buds in each limb, 
and budding enough limbs to form a 
good top. In every other way treat 
them as the buds in the seedlings, cutting 
off the limbs the following Spring close 
to the bud. and keep off all the suckers. 
2. The cherry stocks mentioned I pre¬ 
sume are Mazzards or the common Black 
rural nsw-yorxer 
March 19, 
Heart, and if not too large they can 
be budded from the first to the middle of 
July, as the Mazzaird is very apt to leaf 
blight and stop growing soon after the 
middle of July. If buds can be obtained 
in a growing condition, then bud as the 
peach by snapping bark from limb after 
the bud is cut, but as it often happens 
no growing wood can be had at time the 
budding is to be done; then cut the bud 
with a thin piece of wood left in it; 
tie and treat afterward the same as the 
peach. If these cherry seedlings are 
three-quarters inch through, and four 
or five feet from the ground, then graft 
them early next Spring by sawing off 
the tops and inserting two cleft grafts 
into each stem. 
3. Apple trees can be moved when 
quite large, but if over six or eight 
inches in diameter better plant young 
trees. Dig around the tree so as to 
leave all the roots possible on it, and 
as much of the earth as will cling to 
roots. Then dig hole large enough to 
hold all roots where you plant it, and 
work in good soil all around it, being 
.sure that it is firm by working in the 
soil with thin pounders and pouring 
plenty af water around it to wash the 
soil down and through the roots, then 
brace and tie it to hold it firm against 
winds. e. s. BLACK. 
CROPS AFTER BUCKWHEAT. 
J. R. M., Ligonier, Ind .—Last year I had 
a 10-acre piece of buckwheat, had a big 
yield, 241 bushels. I have been told that 
this piece of ground would not produce any 
good crop after this buckwheat. I thought 
of putting to corn. Would oats be better? 
What fertilizer would be best should I put 
to corn? 1 have a piece of muck, ver5 T 
peaty, has been well drained for 20 years. 
Nothing will grow on it. Common sorrel 
does quite freely, but no crop or grass 
ever grew on it. 1 have plowed it many 
times, simply get nothing. For several 
years red raspberry bushes have taken 
possession, nearly covered with them. They 
do not bear a crop. 
Ans. —Any crop will grow after buck¬ 
wheat if the soil is strong enough or fer¬ 
tilized. Buckwheat is often seeded on 
poor land. As it is a quick-growing crop 
it will take the available plant food out 
of such soil and leave it in poor condi¬ 
tion. We do not believe in the theory 
that buckwheat “poisons” the soil. We 
have a piece of land which grew buck¬ 
wheat last year. This year we shall sow 
oats and peas on it with fertilizer, and 
follow this crop with Alfalfa. Unless 
you know something about the use of 
chemicals we advise you to try a ready- 
mixed corn fertilizer containing 2 x / 2 
nitrogen, nine phosphoric acid and six 
potash. There are certain things true of 
nearly all muck or peat beds. The soil 
is usually quite sour. It usually contains 
considerable nitrogen, a little phosphoric 
acid and only a small pinch of potash. A 
few crops make a fair growth on sour 
soils, but most of them fail. When they 
do grow we have the conditions which 
might be expected from an excess of 
nitrogen. That is a heavy growth of 
stalk and leaf but little or no fruit. First 
of all such soil should be sweetened by 
using lime or wood ashes. Then the 
plant food needs should be supplied by 
using a mixture of acid phosphate or 
bone and muriate of potash. Handled in 
this way the muck will prove the best 
part of your farm. 
Grafting Stock for Apples. 
J. M. G., The Plains, Va .—Will you ad¬ 
vise me upon what kind of stocks it is con¬ 
sidered best to graft Albemarle Pippin, 
York Imperial, Bouum and Rome Beauty, 
and where seedlings of such stocks as you 
think best can be obtained? 
Ans. —Good one-year apple seedlings 
are the best stocks for grafting any 
variety of apple upon, except in the 
extreme North, where the Winters are 
very severe, as in Minnesota, where the 
“Virginia” crab apple roots are used to 
some extent. But it is doubtful if it 
will pay the ordinary farmer or fruit 
grower to try to grow his own apple 
trees from the start. Trees bought from 
a nurseryman who makes it a business 
to grow them are usually cheaper than 
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