The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1906-05-10
PROPACATlNG
BY BUDDING

1t will be quite in place to describe
here how, in France, they propagate
their groves of grated trees, which is
the same mode as first employed with
the Mayette, Franquette and Chaberte
ever since these varieties we're origi-
mated over l60 years ago. The very
first thing they DO is to secure
'mother" trees Of the kind they de-
sire to propagate by grating, so as to
have large roots to give them, by
pruning them back every year, the
budding wood of the proper size they
will need when ready to do their bud
ding. Then they plant Seeding trees,
generally grown by them, but which
are also obtainable in nurseries, with
the tap root severely cut back, to make
them grow lateral roots, the very life
of the tree; and they do not under
take to bud before the trees are Of the
proper size, say not less than six in
ches in diameter, as nothing, repeat
1t, Is gained by being too hasty in
budding or grating walnut trees.
The trees to be top budded are first
cut back before spring, only few
side limbs, to be subsequently cut off
being left to shade the trunk and as a
valve for the escape of the rising sap
this pruning back causes the throwing
out of young and vigorous shoots.
Such shoots are also produced where
branches have been cut back for graft
ing, and when the graft fails to grow,
they may be utilized for budding.
Quite number of shoots, after the
top is cut back, will start around the
remaining stumps, but after having
become woody enough, certain mum.
Der only, the straightest and incest
ones, are allowed to stay, all other be.
ing removed. When ready to bud, say
from July to August, rings of bark
containing a bud are, on the preced-
ing night, and at table in the house,
taken from the scions, the best ones
being those right at the base and
where the wood Is perfectly round
Indeed, they are the only ones fit to
be usedl, being very careful In remov-
ing the ring Of bark not to bruise in
any manner the corcule, which cor
responds exactly with the eye proper,
otherwise the budding would be blind.
The rings of bark on the scious, which
are wrapped up In wet cloth till next
days operation, thus saving much
time and rendering more perfect the
removing of the rings of bark. The
larger the shoots, the better. The
ring of bark to be inserted is applied
on q portion Of the shoot we'll spaced
between two buds, but as near the
base as possible, and the knife run
horizontally above it, and vertical
cut made back of it, the ring Of bark
being then taken from the stock and
the one containing a bud being in
serted in its place. 1t Is "a very sim
pie operation that every Intelligent
person can perform without the aid
Of skillful CRATER. II the ring of
bark inserted Is too small to reach all
around the stock, strip of bark Is
left on the latter; in that case 1t may
be called plate, instead of ring bud
ding. Ii the shoots so budded are OF
the proper size, and above all the
rings of bark adroitly removed from
the scions, five buds out of six should
succeed. 1t Is more safe if shoots are
too long and too heavy, and 30 as to
prevent accidents, to cut them back
TO two or three feet. The ensuing
spring the shoots are cut back right
above the budding and the cut waxed.
When theRbud grows up too rank, it
may be tied to stake, itself tied to
the stump, to prevent breaking off as
is often the case the same with gratis.
Ring budding and budding by ap-
proach may be regarded as tho very
strongest ways of propagating by bud
ding or grating the walnut no dan
ger of the grating breaking off after
wards under the weight of the nuts
or from other causes not so with cleft
grating. Felix Glllet in Pacific Ru-
raj Press.