The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-28
BUDDING.
Some Familiar and Interesting Sugges
tions with Respect to the Practice.

some Famillar and Interesting Sugges :
tions with Respect to the Practice.
There are two requirements which
make budding easy and successful and
any person may learn the operation 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 suffi-
GENTLY ripened buds. The most adroit
and ingenious man in che world can not
make bud live on stock which is not
growing freely, and from which the
bark does not freely separate. Some
years ago we examined nursery rows a
few weeks after the young trees had
been budded. Most of the trees 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 builder had
set these buds to make the matter sure,
but he did not succeed under dry adj
herring bark. The operator must watch
the trees, and bud them when in the
right condition, 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 sea-
son than other trees. As soon as the
shoots on the stocks begin to show that
their terminal buds are forming, and th at
growth will soon cease or become less
vigorous, no time is to be lost. And the
work can not be done much earlier, as
the buds will not have sufficiently rip
ened. There should be enough wood
cut off with the bud to make it insert
firmly, and no more. Using sharp
knife is of course necessary, and the
hgature 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 bruis-
ing it Any person with a fair amount
of common sense win 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. The
usual time for budding the cherry is
about the middle or last half of July;
but with rank growing stocks we have
succeeded near the end of August. The
plum usually requires nearly as early
budding as the cherry; the apple and
the pear may be budded later, varying
with the time that free growth ceases.
Last of all, and frequently during the
first half of September, the operation is
performed on the peach, and with the
pear on ounce. But if the growth is
not free, or the soil not rich enough to
keep up strong growth, the work must
be done on the peach and ounce in Au-
gust. sag 9tt
Success depends on the ripeness of
the buds. When they are not fully
mature, as often with the first budded
cherries, it is advisable to cut little
deeper into the scion, so as to cut out
thicker slice of wood. In cutting scions
from the tree the variety of which we
wish to propagate, select those shoots
which are the ripest or most mature. If
they have formed terminal bud, all
the buds they furnish will be sufficient
ly mature; but if the terminal bud is
not formed. then the ripest only are to
be chosen from the lower half of the
shoot. 1t often happens that the lower
shoots on the tree from which they are
cut are ripest, having ceased growth,
when the central and upper shoots are
still pushing upward.
Budding need not be confined to
fruits The same requirements will APP
ply to ornamental trees and shrubs, and
the same success will attend the opera
ton if performed with varieties of the
same species, or between different
species which are nearly allied Coun-
try Gentleman.