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The Bulletin. 



The mallet cutling is mallet or T-shaped. A portion, several inches 

 long, of the parent branch is left attached to the shoot. Fig. 136 

 illustrates a mallet cutting of grape. It has the 

 same advantage the heel cutting has. 



A single-eye cuiting (Fig. 14) is sometimes 

 employed with very rare varieties, when one 

 wishes to increase them as rapidly as possible. 

 It consists of a short piece of the shoot contain- 

 ing one bud or "eye." A smaller proportion of 

 these live than in the other kinds 

 of cuttings. They should re- 

 ceive special attention — a hot- 

 bed or gTeen-house bench with 

 bottom heat are best. ^The buds 

 are covered with about one-half 

 to one inch of soil. 



BUDDING. 



Shield Budding. — • This is 

 the method most commonly em- 

 ployed. It consists in making 

 a T-shaped cut (Fig. 15 [1]) in 

 the bark of the young tree. Then 

 a bud is cut from bud-wood 

 wnth a small portion of bark 

 attached, making it shield- 

 shaped (Fig. 15 [2]). This is 

 inserted in the T-shaped open- 

 ing in the stock (Fig. 15 [3]). 

 The bud is then wrapped with 

 waxed cloth to hold it in place. 

 The w^ork should be done when 

 there is a strong flow of sap, as 

 in May or June. Care should 



be exercised in handling the bud and bud-w^ood. 



be injured in handling. The bud-wood should be kept moist by wrap 



ping in wet cloth. The cloth should be 



removed as soon as the bud has united well 



with the stock, which takes from one to tw^o 



weeks. At the same time the stock should 



be cut and lopped just above the inserted 



bud, leaving about one-third the stock in contact for several weelcs. 



This is not such a great shock as when the whole top is removed at 



once, and it helps to nourish the bud for some time. 



Fig. 12.— Simple 

 Cutting of Fig. 



Fig. 13. -a. Heel Cutting. 

 B. Mallet Cutting. 



The bud should not 



Fig. 14. 



Single-eye Cutting 

 of Grape. 



