Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-11-12
BUDDING OR INNOCULATING FRUIT
TREES.
Hon. Il. A. s. DEARBORN,
Pres Mass Hort Society.

PreS. mass. if0Tt. oOciefy
9ra--I have read with much pleasure, the do
rig 81 the Massachusetts II rticnltnral Society.
as noi,ccd in the New England Farmer, aud
feeiibE some interest IN the promotion OF the
good work. communist to Won the result of
one or Two experiments have made in budding
fruit trees the past -eason
Ia the latter part of April, Tree ived small
bundle Of trees from Mr. Douney's nursery !;
among tbs iot was an Ambtete and "a Sickle
peer tree from some cause they did nut do
well, and in tn aterpari OF June but few limbs
had eaved out and several OF he smaller tWias
had become much shrivelled, both the bark
and buds. On the Isl day Of July, took some
scions from the trees, and inserted upon small
par ocks, also took buds from the almost d,y
limb, and inserted upon other stocks, which |
headed down near the buds few days after +;
within a fortnight after the insertion of those
dry buds on both the sGions and buds, they
started with much vigor, and bid fair 10 do as
well rs though they had been set in the usual
time of grating and budding. In setting the
buds, it seems almost superfluOus 10 say that the
wood taken from the iwig with The bark and
bud, was inserted il could no more have been
parted than in the month OF January.
From the above fact. infer that scions ia
ken from fruit trees in March may be kept in
sand or moss ill June or July, and then the
bu Is he inserted, and do as well as buds of the
same years growth and as scions cut ip Msrch
can be sent with more safety and TO greater dis
tances and rare and choice kinds can he more
extensively multiplied IL a short period of time
b, buds than by gratis, have thought it might
be of some service to your Society TO he in pos
session Of the above act,--with one other will
relate.
a., n I nj q
friend twig from an Apricot tree, and brought
il home in my hat; bat thought no more oil II
till the next day, near sunset when, upon ex.
animation. found the leaves oil withered, and
the bark much shiiveed Thought il too far
gone to be OF any use, and threw i, upon the
ground; 10 the course of the night we had
shower Of rain in the morning my Apricot
twig was restored TO it's original fulness. | set
FIVE buds upon as many small peach stocks, four
OF which are now alive, and have grown from
10 to Is inches. would here remark, that l
set The buds as recommended by Judge Buet, in
the n. f. Farmer. without separating the wood
from the bud and headed down the stock as
advised by Mr.. Landrnm'. Buds Of the Necta
rine, set at the same time and treated in the
same way. have done equally well.
Thus il will be seen that the buds that should
have ieaved out in May, and buds that would
not have Ieaved out ill next spring, were
made 10 burst into life and vigor in the middle
of July, by the simple process ofbudding
From my experiments with the shrivelled pear
buds, and wiihered apricot twis, do DOT ina
CINE there is so much nicely required in the op
GRAFTON as is generally recommended IN BOOKS
treating upon the subject.
In coHnexion with the foregoing, | have been
impressed with an idea that has some plausihili-
~ in theory however contrary the result nav
prove upon trial 1T is this-there are mani
kinds OF our finest apples and other fruit trees,
that tear onl, every other year: and have
supposed, that scion taken from the Baldwin
tree in March, add kept till June or July, and
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