YOUNG FOLKS BUDGET PROPAGATION BY BUDDING

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 83, 8 April 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)

YOUNG FOLKS BUDGET

PROPAGATION BY BUDDING

SOME USEFUL HINTS. Now is the time to bud fruit or other trees, and the pictures above and description below will enable an amateur to try out this interesting form of grafting. Budding.—o: Portion of a strong and well-hardened apple shoot of the current season's growth, showing mode of "taking" the buds; (g) point of cutting leaves, leaving part of the leaf and petiole (leafstalk) to serve as- a handle to the bud; (h) dotted vertical lines indicate direction of loiife in " taking " buds, the trimmed shoot being called a "stick." Note.—The upper buds of a shoot, often not fully developed and borne on soft wood, are usually discarded, as also are the small basal buds of the shoot (i). P: Proper bud, long and pointed, a wood bud almost always in the case of the apple and pear, but not so in the cherry, nectarine, peach, and plum; (j) shield or portion of bark and wood with bud and portion of leaf. Q: Improper bud, rounded, stout, and short, a blossom bud, such as occurs

on* the season's growth of the cherry, nectarine, peach, and plum, especially when weakly or stunted. K: Triple bud of peach, the centre bud being usually a wood bud, long, narrow, and pointed, and whether there are one, two, or three buds cue must be a wood bud. S: Bud properly taken and prepared for insertion in stock; (k) bark exposed by cut of thin-biaded. sharp knife in taking off bud; (1) part from which the wood has been removed, leaving the eye intact. The whole bud is usually about one inch long.

Inserting the Bud.—T: Making incisions in stock, one vertical, an inch or an inch and a half long, the other transverse, thus forming a T. • Both cuts must reach through the bark only. CJ: Bud inserted; the corners of bark are raised a little so as to allow bud to be pushed in, this being done partly by the fingers and finished by the handle of the knife placed upon the leafstalk. Cut off the top of bud when the whole of it cannot be passeel into the cleft. V: Bud tied; (q) bandage about a foot long, usually started below the bud, the end being held by lapping the second course over it and the upper end being secured by drawing a bow through the second course. Take care not to bond over the btid itself. Attention afterwards is necessary to loosen or renjove the bandage in due time. This may usually be done safely within a month. The portion of the stock below the bud should in all cases be kept clear of useless growths; but the shoots above must be preserved or very slightly shortened. In autumn the stock may be cut back to two inches above the bud, or a portion four inches to six inches may be left for securing the growth from the inserted bud. W: Growth from bud; (r) vigorous

shoot; (s) secured to remaining portion of stock; (t) point of cutting off portion of stock above bud, performed when scion growth is about 12 inches high. A stake is necessary in some cases to secure the growth when no part of the stock is left. Always do this work while the bark, with the bud. can be properly detached from the wood.

Apart from grafting apple on apple or peach on peach, you may try your hand at nectarine on peach, plum on pear, pear on quince, and lemon on orange.

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