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 Thus, the stocks being ready, the budding is performed in July, in the usual method (see Budding) and in the Spring following the buds shoot forth, each one strong shoot attaining two or three feet in length by Autumn, and commences the new tree.

Then the first shoot from the budding is to be managed, as the case requires, to give the trees their first proper form. If such standards that are budded low in the stock, the first shoot must be run straight up to form a stem of proper height; but if the standards are budded at top of the stock, and this forms the stem, the said first shoots should, generally, either the same Summer in June, or in March following, be headed down to six or eight inches; as also those of the dwarf trees,