Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-08-01
Budding---Familiar Suggestions.

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There are two requirements which
make budding easy and successful,
and any person may learn the oper-
alton in five minutes if he is handy
with tools. These two indispensable
requirements are-thrifty stock from
which the bark will lift or peel quite
freely, and sufficiently ripened buds.
The most adroit and ingenious man
in the world cannot make a bud live
ON a stock which is not freely grow
ing, and from which the bark does
not freely separate. Some years ago
we examined nursery rows few
weeks after the young trees had been
budded. Most of the trees had each
but one inserted bud, and all these
had taken successfully. A few here
and there, had three buds inserted,
and these were all dead. The bark
on the stocks not lifting freely, the
budder had set these buds to make
the matter sure, but he did not sue
coed under a dry adhering bark. The
operator must watch the trees, and
bud them when in the right condi-
ton, which usually varies in time
with different kinds of fruit. Com
monty the cherry must be budded
first, as it ceases growing earlier in
the season than other trees. AS soon
as the shoots on the stocks begin to
show that their terminal buds are
forming, and that growth will soon
cease or become less vigorous, no time
is to be lost. And the work cannot
be done much earlier, as the buds
will not have sufficiently ripened.
Enough wood should be cut off with
the bud to make it insert firmly, and
no more. Using a sharp knife is of
course necessary, and the ligature
must be drawn just tight enough to
bring the face of the inserted bud in
close contact with the wood Of the
stock, but not cutting in nor bruising
it. Any person with a fair amount
of common sense will know Just how
tight to draw it.
Sometimes cherry stocks will con-
tinue to grow some weeks later than
the average, and in this case, they
may be budded correspondingly later.
Theusual time for budding the cherry
is about the middle or last of July
but with rank growing stocks we
succeeded near the end of August
The plum usually requires nearly as
early budding as the cherry; the
apple and the pear may be buddeC
later, varying with the time that free
growth ceases. Last of all, and fire
quently during the first half of Sep
TENDER, the operation is performed
on the peach, and with the pear OF
ounce. But the growth is not free
or the soil not rich enough to keel
up strong growth, the work must b,
done on the peach and ounce in Au
gust.
Success depends on the ripeness o
buds. When they are not full!
mature, as often with the first buddeC
cherries, it is advisable to cut a littl,
deeper into the scion, so as to cut on
thick slice of wood. In cuttin;
scions from the tree the variety O
which we wish to propagate, selec
those shoots which are the ripest O
most mature. If they have formed
a terminal bud, all the buds they fur
nish will be sufficiently mature bu
if the terminal bud is not formed
then the ripest only are to be chOsel
from the lower half of the shoot.
often happens that the lower shoot
on the tree from which they are GU
are ripest, having ceased growth
while the central and upper shoot
are still pushing upward.
Budding need not be confined t
fruits. The same requirements will
apply to ornamental trees and shrub
and the same success will attend tn
operation if performed with varietie
Of the same species, or between differ
ent species which are nearly allied
The reader will find the operation
amply described and illustrated witt
engraVings on pages 236 and 237 G
the seventh volume of Rural Affairs
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