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the stock. The bud is made fast 

 in its situation Ly tying it with a 

 strand or ribbon of bast matting. 

 This being done in summer or 

 autumn, the matting remains on for 

 a month or six weeks, according to 

 circumstances, till the back of the 

 bud shows, by its healthy appear- 

 ance, that a vital union has taken 

 place. The matting may now be 

 loosened, and in a week or two alto- 

 gether removed. By another mode, 

 differing a little from the above, the 



FIG. 1. — COMMON OE SHIELD-BUDDING. 



cut across is made below the slit, as 

 shown in ji(j. 1, in which d shows 

 the cuts made in the stock, e the 

 bud inserted, and / the bast mat 

 applied. 



Niche-budding is when the wood is 

 retained in the bud, as shown mfig. 2, 



FIG. 2.— NICHE-BUDDING. 



in which ^ is the prepared stock ; c 

 the bud turned to show the wood, and 

 a h the bud applied, which should 

 afterwards be bound with bast mat, 

 as before. In placing the bud on 

 the stock in niche-budding, the prin- 

 cipal thing to be attended to is, to 



bring the horizontal edges of the 

 base of the niche in the stock, and 

 those of the bud which is to fit into 

 it, into the most perfect contact pos- 

 sible ; because the union is produced, 

 not as in common summer budding, 

 by the junction of the soft Avood of 

 the stock with the rudiment of the 

 soft wood on the inside of the bark 

 of the bud, but by the junction of 

 soft wood with soft wood, as in com- 

 mon grafting. This mode of bud- 

 ding will always succeed best when 

 the niche in the stock is made where 

 there is already a bud (as shown at 

 r/), making the horizontal cut 

 through the base of the bud. 



Another mode is called annular 

 flute-budding, in which a branch or 

 shoot is chosen on the tree which is 

 to be propagated, as thick as, or 

 thicker than, the stock in which the 

 bud is to be inserted. A ring of 

 bark including a bud is then cut off 

 from the branch of the shrub which 

 is to be propagated, and detached by 

 splitting it longitudinally on one 

 side. A similar ring of bark is then 

 detached from the stock, and the 

 former inserted in its place, and tied 

 on with matting. This mode of 

 budding is found particularly suit- 

 able for all trees or shrubs having 

 thick bark. There are many other 

 kinds of budding, but these are in 

 the most general use. 



It sometimes happens in the case 

 of Roses, that the bud Avill produce 

 a shoot the same season in which it 

 has been inserted ; but it more fre- 

 quently remains dormant till the 

 following spring. At this period the 

 stock should be cut over a ie^y inches 

 above the bud ; and the shoot, as it 

 grows, should be slightly tied to the 

 portion of the stock left on above 

 the bud, in order to prevent it from 

 being injured by high winds. The 

 second year this portion of the stock 

 may be cut off close to the bud. 



