The Florida agriculturist., 1907-10-09
Look After Those Buds.


the present time, but the following d1-
rections, taken from the Pac1hc Fruit
World, will be Of interest, showing
what they do in California. In this
state we speak of tying up buds, but
you will see that something very differ
ent is meant in using the word in this
article, it is evident that wrapping is
meant. Which shows that they are
more liable to frost which will lnjure
young orange buds than we are in this
state. The Fruit World article is as
follows:
There are comparatively few older
orchards in which there have not been
more or less budding within the last
three or four years. Australians,
Mediterranean Sweets, seedlings, lem
on and other citrus fruits have been
budded to more desirable kinds Often
these are large trunked trees, and if
the orchard is in good keep" the
growth is very vigorous.
Such trees need more than ordinary
care It is quite a task to keep the
old nature in subjection, and, in fact,
it is a task that requires about as
much judgment and discrimination as
any chore there is to be done tbout
a ranch. If the original stock happens
to be seeding the process is simple
enough Ali there is to do is to go
over the trees carefully, cut out all
suckers or branches that are of the
old stock These can be really detect
ed by the thOrns and other evident
marks Of their kind, and yet even this
should be done by an intelligent man;
one who can discriminate whether such
a branch should be cut or allowed to
remain and be budded, in order to
balance up the shape Of the tree U.s.
ually it is best to take it entirely out,
but occasionally it will be found best
to bud it to the desired sort before
amputation.
But in the case of budding budded
fruit over, it is not so simple, unless it
should be lemon to orange, or vice
versa, or grapefruit to other citrus
kinds, cases like the seeding, where
there are we'll defined variations in
foliage Of immature wood to tell by.
We have just been going over a block
OF Mediterranean Sweets that have been
budded over to Valencias, and in many
cases it has been almost impossible
to detect the inter1oping "Sweet"
wood Often sucker will grow out
of the scar made in abortive attempts
at budding, and if the growth has got
ten a good start, it is impossible to
detect the fraud" except by foliage
and wood growth, and here again diff
culties arise All young, vigorous
wood growth is so similar as to be an
unsafe guide, and the leaves being
large and vigorous, the peculiar form
OF small pointed leaves are not in
evidence to a marked degree So we
see that this work should be done bv
one who can bud and tie buds, in or
der to save the labor of sending a
h1gh-prlced man over the same ground
a second time, and it should be man
with the experience and discernment
to detect the spurious branches and
decide whether to cut out, or bud
In this connection we might say that
IN the case of trees newly budded
during the past spring and summer.
this should be the last suckering for
the season 1t is our practice to al
low the suckers to grow and help shelf
er the tree, which might devel0D dir
ing the fall. In this way there will be
tound to be quite a nice growth of
foliage to help protect the buds Al
ty1ng-up time. Yes, all newly-budded
trees should be tied I'D. even in So