BUD INSERTED ON THE BUDSTOCK 



As shown in this and the preceding illustration, a T-shaped incision is made in the stock, and 

 the edges of the bark lifted up. A bud is then sliced off with about an inch and a half 

 of bark, care being taken to bring with it the soft inner bark (cambium layer) and a thm 

 sHce of the hard wood. If the bud is in the axil of a leaf (as above) the leaf is cut off 

 The bud is very carefully slipped in as shown under the bark, using the stub of the loaf as 

 a handle. Photograph, much enlarged, by David Fairchild. (Fig. 12.) 



