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it wo'n't agree with you ; and if standing ou your head all 

 day, with the glass at 98', is not one of your special enjoy- 

 ments, you wo'n't enjoy budding Manetti. 



Well, all is ready, and buds got, nice plump ones. In getting 

 buds, nice half-ripe shoots full of good buds should be taken 

 where they can best be spared. I have been asked, " Do you 

 out the buds one at a time off the wood, or cut lengths of 

 wood with several buds on ?" Of course the latter (see piece 



Fig. 4.— How to hoU the bud when pullidg-out the wood. As the bark and 

 wood separate, Blip the third iiugers of both hands downwards Kiadually 

 till the end is reached ; by so doing the bark will hardly over break. 



of Eose shoot with buds,,//i7. 2 a) — I remember the time when 

 I didn't know — set the siioots in a small can with an inch of 

 water to keep them fresh ; clear away the earth from your 

 stocks — don't clear too many at once, as the bark soon dies 

 and then wo'n't work so well — down, or nearly down, to the 

 roots ; just rub your thumb and finger round the stock to clear 

 from soU and thorns ; make a cross T-cut {fir/. 2 i),and insert 

 the buds as in Jig. S a; tie in the regular way (fig. 3 b), and in 

 about a month the cotton may be removed. Should any buds 

 have missed, insert others at once just below where the first 



Fig. 5. — Stock with gruwiu:-; bud m M 



tuck prupelly cut uft'. 



was put in. You may do this till quite the second week in 

 October if the weather is warm, which it generally is, with a 

 very good chance of the bud taking. 



Oh ! ah ! — there now ! I have forgotten I am writing this 

 expressly for those who do not know. I well remember, when 

 I began, the annoyance and vexation it was to me to find 

 almost all writers " presume " that everyone knows such and 

 such a thing as to the minor details, and that was the very in- 

 formation I wanted, and I have not said a word about pre- 



paring and inserting the buds. WeU, then, get good shoots of 

 the sorts you are going to bud, with plenty of " fat frog-nose " 

 shaped buds, such shoots as have borne flowers, or are about to 

 do so ; often these latter yield the best buds, as the former 

 will have sometimes started, or even blind shoots — i.e., those 

 without flower buds, if they are not too gross and strong, or 

 unripe and pithy. Medium-sized shoots are best, about the 

 thickness of a " churchwarden clay " pipe-stem. As soon after 

 you get the Bose shoot with buds I advise cutting-off the 

 leaves, so as to leave the footstalk only (see fig. 2 a), as by 

 leaving the leaves on, the bark of the shoot is much sooner 

 shrivelled-up through evaporation than if the leaves are out 

 off, as there shown, and will keep plump and fresh much longer. 

 Cut out the bud, as in Jig. 2 a and c, with a thin slice of wood, 

 and in budding Manetti you want a longer heel to the bud 

 than for the Briar. Cut the bud with the bark about au inch 

 long, about two-thirds above the bud, and one-third below; 

 remove the wood as in fig. 4. I cannot explain it, but take 



Fig. 6. — Finished plant, to he planted 4 inches above the junction of stock 

 and scion, or to dotted line, a, How to cut back in March. 



the bud in the left hand as shown there, take hold of the wood 

 with the nails of the right thumb and finger, and pull it out. 

 Do it without fear, and boldly, and you will not spoil one in a 

 hundred. Now make a cut in the bark of the stock, as in 

 Jig. 2 ft, with a cross-cut — mind your knife is always very sharp 

 — lift the bark with the back of your budding-knijp, and insert 

 the bud, as shown in fig, 3 a. Push it well home; cut off 

 level with the cross-cut, so that the bark may fit well with 

 that of the stock ; tie with candle cotton, not too tight, and 

 tie with the knot behind, on the opposite side to where the 

 bud is inserted {Jig. 3 ft). 



I have been asked, "Should the earth be returned, so as to 

 cover the stocks as before budding V Should the stocks be 

 pruned or shortened now ?" No, to both questions ; leave them 

 as they are, and the stronger they grow now the better plants 

 you will get next year. In September and the following months 

 to the close of the year, but the sooner the better, the shoots 

 may be cut from the budded stocks to make cuttings as before, 

 otherwise do not meddle with them till April, and then go 

 over them often, and keep down the new shoots that the 

 Manetti will be numerously and vigorously making. By that 

 means the bud will be induced to start, if it has not done so 

 ah-eady, and when grown <j inches or more in Blay, cut the 

 stock clean off just above the bud (see Jig. 5). The cleaner 

 this is done the better, although the Manetti stands rougher 

 treatment than the Briar, and bo is not of so much conse- 

 quence. I even towards the end of May cut down those whose 

 buds have not started, and so either make them start or kill 



