THE OPERATION OF BUDDING 



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Choice fruit and dIIut trees usually do not eome true to seed ; if their ciualily is to he perpetuated, 

 they must he propagated asexually, and hudding is one of the hest methods. It is a 

 simple ojjeration which desers-es to be better known and more used by amateurs. It may 

 lie performed whenever liark will peel, and whenever mature buds can be secured; this 

 means in early sjjrinj;: and again in late summer and early autumn. A tree of one species 

 in most cases must be budded on another of the same or a closely related species, the bud 

 I eing taken from a choice variety and inserted either on a rapidly growing sh(X)t of a large 

 tree or on a young seedling. The bud must be taken from a twig about the size of the 

 one on which "it is projrased to i)lace it; usually one of the diameter of a lead pencil, or of 

 the little finger, is used. The above photograi)h, bv John Howard Paine, is enlarged. 

 (Fig. 11.) 



