5S : BUDDING. 
crown of the root, from which the stems of the plant are to 
spring. When the plant is to be propagated, the tubers 
are divided, and planted separately, and each that has a bud 
at its summit will send up a stem, and will become a new 
plant. Sometimes, however, it happens that several of the 
tubers are devoid of buds, and that others have more than 
one, and when this is the case, one of the buds is scooped 
out, and a notch being made in the top of the barren tuber 
to receive it, the bud is ftted in, and the point of junction 
covered with grafting wax. The tuber must then be 
planted in a pot with the budded part above the soil; and 
the pot plunged into a hot-bed till the bud begins to push, 
when the tuber may be planted out into the open ground. | 
What is called flute-grafting, is, in fact, a kind of bud- 
ding; as it consists in taking a ring of bark, on which 
there is a bud, off a shoot; and then supplying its place | 
with a ring of bark, with a bud attached, from another | 
tree: placing the suppositious bud as nearly as possible in | 
the position of the true bud. Sometimes, however, this is 
not thought necessary ; and the ring of bark is taken from 
any part of the stock; though it is always replaced by a 
ring of bark containing a bud from the scion. There are 
many other kinds of budding, but as the principles are the 
same in all, it is not necessary to detail them here. The 
blade of the budding knife should be short, and curve out- 
wards, to lessen the danger of wounding the wood when 
making the incisions, 
The principal points to be attended to in budding, are, to 
choose a fresh healthy bud; to separate the bark to which 
it is attached, without wounding it, quite cleanly from the 
wood; to make a clear incision through the bark of the 
stock, and to raise it from the wood without wounding it; 
to press the bark containing the bud so closely to the wood 
of the stock that no air can remain between them; and to 
perform the operation in moist weather, not earlier than the 
last week in July, nor later than the first week in Septem- 
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