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Apple Culture in Victoria. 



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fully removed. Fig. 1 (6) is side view, (c) front, and {d) the back 

 of the bud. 



To insert the bud in the stock, Fig. 2, the budding knife is drawn 

 upward to make the vertical incision (a) about 1 inch in length, and 

 the transverse incision (&) completes a (T). When this has been done, 

 the bark may be lifted, with the budding knife, as shown in the diagram, 

 and the bud carefully inserted. Fig. 3 shows the bud in position and 

 the bark closed in around it. Fig. 4 illustrates method of tying the 

 budded part. A piece of prepared rafHa is used for this purpose. The 



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raffia should be neatly and fiiinly applied with a view to excluding the 

 air from tlie wound until the bud has taken. 



As a rule stocks produced from root grafts are fairly straight, and 

 in such cases it is immaterial on wiuit side of the stock the l)ud it 

 inserted. But when, as in the case of the stock represented by Fig. 5, 

 the growth from the terminal bud on the scion of the root graft strikes 

 off at an angle, producing a crooked st(Mn, it is advisable to place the bud 

 on the inside of the bend, as shown, so that it may grow in tlie direction 



