MAN-MADE PLANTS 
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Someone thought of putting the Florida buds 
onto the Japanese trees, and now it is possible 
to raise Florida oranges much farther north 
than formerly. You can see that there is a 
great advantage in being able to do this. 
Often people who do not raise fruit to sell 
have fun making experiments with budding. 
A family may have room for just one tree in 
its yard. They probably will plant a lemon 
tree, for it is very hardy. Later they can bud 
onto that tree, oranges, grapefruit, and tanger¬ 
ines. Maybe they will have several different 
kinds of oranges. It is not at all unusual in 
California to see four kinds of fruit growing on 
one single tree. 
The different kinds of fruit must be closely 
related as oranges and lemons are. You cannot 
put apples on lemon trees, but you can grow 
apples on pear trees. There is a grove of prune 
trees in California now whose roots are the roots 
of almond trees. It is fairly easy to tell which 
trees will exchange this way by looking at the 
seeds. Orange and lemon seeds are alike, so 
