2l4 The Wg?i-bus?i Slucbo-rj. 



Then lift up the bark at the top of the cut and insert it, which, with the aid of the 

 foot-stalk, should be pushed down to the bottom of the incision. If the top reaches 

 above the cross cut, cut off so as to fit exactly, fig. 4. A bandage, as in fig. 5, 

 should be wound evenly and snugly, and tied over the whole except the bud and 

 foot-stalk, which must be left exposed. 



Care and expedition must be used in the operation to insure success, for if the 

 parts are bruised, or suffered to become dry, they will not unite. If the foot-stalk 

 remains fresh and green and the bud plump ten or twelve days, it indicates that the 

 bud has taken. In two or three weeks, or as soon as the union is perfect, the 

 bandage should be loosened, and if the stock is much swelled removed. 



In budded seedlings near the ground, cut off the stock in the spring five or six 

 inches above the bud. It is not safe to cut close, as the stock will die down some 

 distance. To secure a strong upright growth, tie the new shoot when a few inches 

 long to this stump, fig. 7, for the course of four or five weeks no further support 

 will be needed, when the stump may be wholly cut away and the wound allowed to 

 heal, by the rapid formation of new wood. 



On the whole, in cutting the bud, we rather prefer to insert the knife below 

 instead of above and make the cut upward. An upward cut gives to the bend of the 

 bud a better point for insertion. With these very plain instructions no one of ordi- 

 nary tact need fail of becoming an expert in budding. 



The High-bush. Blueberry. 



ED. Western Horticulturist: I should like to learn through The Horti- 

 culturist, or otherwise, if the High-bush Blueberry can be profitably grown 

 for market on our mucky prairie soil. If so, where, and at what price can the 

 plants be obtained; or if they can be raised from the seed. 



I appreciate highly the monthly visits of The Horticulturist, and the infor- 

 mation it brings; but I wish some of your correspondents would not be so modest 

 about giving the names of parties and localities. It is profitable to know the 

 latitude of fruit growers, though isothermal lines do not always follow parallels of 

 latitude. A correspondent often writes of what varieties of a fruit are hardy of 

 those he has tried, but does not make mention of those that may have failed. So if 

 the reader has a pet sort in mind he does not know whether the writer had it 

 among his tender ones. Silas Gr. Goss. 



Border Plains, Ohio. 



Remarks. — We have the High-bush Blueberry growing upon our grounds, high 

 dry soil, from plants brought from the pastures of New Hampshire some years ago, 

 where it seems adapted to both wet and dry land. The plants may be grown from 

 seed. We do not suppose they are to be found on sale at any nursery. 



