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sowing. In peaches, the bud will produce a shoot 3 to 5 feethigh the same season the buds are set, so that marketablebudrlet{ trees wn be had complete it1 one season from the seed.A different kintl of early summer budding is sometimes performedOH apples and other fruit-trees. In this case, thestocks are one r)r two years old from the transplanting, thesame as for common budding, but dormantbuds are used. These buds arecut the previous fall or winter in thesame 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 theof hidding.stocks are large enough to receive them.The particular advantage of this method is the distributingof the labor of budding over a longer season, thereby avoidingthe rush of the regular budding time. It is also a very usefulmeans of top-working trt*efS, for the buds start the same seasonin which they are set, ant1 a lvhole season is thereby saved .ascompared with the u~~nmo~~ summer or fall budding.Budders usuall~~ carry a number of ’ “ sticks” with them whenthey enter the uursery. These ma>’ be taken in the pocket,or some budders carr>r four or five sticks in the hand. Thebudder follows a row throughout its length, passing over thosetrees that are too Small to work. It is an old mode to rest onone knee while budding, as in Fig. 143, but some prefer to use alow stool or to sit. It is a common pract,ice, in some nurseryregions, for budders to have a low box with, half of the topcovered to serI’E: as a, seat, and the box is used for carryingbuds, string, kni\*es and whetstone. The tying is usually doneby a boy, WOO should follow close behind the budder in orderthat the buds shall uot dry out. An expert budder will setfrom 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 aremore .rapidly budded than most others, as the bark is firm