CHE REFERENCE LIBRARY - Pole Shift Survival Information

sowing. In peaches, the bud will produce a shoot 3 to 5 feet
high the same season the buds are set, so that marketable
budrlet{ trees wn be had complete it1 one season from the seed.
A different kintl of early summer budding is sometimes performed
OH apples and other fruit-trees. In this case, the
stocks are one r)r two years old from the transplanting, the
same as for common budding, but dormant
buds are used. These buds are
cut the previous fall or winter in the
same way as c’ions, and when spring ap-
’ _ proaches they are put on ice - in saw-
FIG. 144. The oper:ltinn dust, sd or moss _ mtl kept, until the
of hidding.
stocks are large enough to receive them.
The particular advantage of this method is the distributing
of the labor of budding over a longer season, thereby avoiding
the rush of the regular budding time. It is also a very useful
means of top-working trt*efS, for the buds start the same season
in which they are set, ant1 a lvhole season is thereby saved .as
compared with the u~~nmo~~ summer or fall budding.
Budders usuall~~ carry a number of ’ “ sticks” with them when
they enter the uursery. These ma>’ be taken in the pocket,
or some budders carr>r four or five sticks in the hand. The
budder follows a row throughout its length, passing over those
trees that are too Small to work. It is an old mode to rest on
one knee while budding, as in Fig. 143, but some prefer to use a
low stool or to sit. It is a common pract,ice, in some nursery
regions, for budders to have a low box with, half of the top
covered to serI’E: as a, seat, and the box is used for carrying
buds, string, kni\*es and whetstone. The tying is usually done
by a boy, WOO should follow close behind the budder in order
that the buds shall uot dry out. An expert budder will set
from l()OC_) to 3001) buds a day, in good stock, and with a boy
(or two of them for the latter speed) to tie. I’each stocks are
more .rapidly budded than most others, as the bark is firm