BUDDING STONED FRUIT.
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Mr. Fessenden: With pleasure answer the inquiries of your correspondent, a Lover of Good Fruit" relative to bud- ding lon stoned fruit," in the spring.

 ln the spring of 1928, when the sap was in active motion, and as soon as the bark would easily separate from the wood, (the day not recollected) took few buds fiom an old rareripe and placed them in the usu- al way of T budding, into young peach trees, one year old, cutting off the stocks about three inches above the inoculation l succeeded beyond my most sanguine cx- pectations, and do not now recollect, tha1 I lost single bud. The trees grew well and have thrifty appearance. l also al the same time, by way of experiment, however, took from peach tree few cut- tings or scions, or 4 inches in length, having 3 or 4 good buds on each, & graft ed them into some peach stocks of one years growth, in the following manner :-- First cut the scions on, one side sloping to point about an inch and a half, and proceed in the mode of T budding, and lastly cut of the stock about three inches above the insertion of the scion. These l lost except one, which did we'll and grew vigorously, but was at last broken of by a strong wind. The vegetative process was not SO far advanced in the. buds and scions used as that in the stocks.

 This is the first and all the knowledge that ever had of budding (" on stoned fruit'' in the spring; and consider it an acquisition of some importance, as some- times inc bud of the summer inoculation are destroyed by the succeeding winter, or by insects, in which case the trees may be rcbudded in the spring and little or no time lost as to thoir growth.

 ... .'s. R. GREEN.

 Mansfield, Jan. 20, 1928.