BUDDING. 



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BUDDING. 



While pear trees inixy he propagated with a measure 

 of success hy otlier inetliods, it is hj hud- ^ ^ ^ 



ding only that they can he raised in large 

 numhers with economy and entire success. 

 The constitution of the Pear especially 

 fits it for this process. 



The firm, tough hark of the stock, and 

 the ahundant coating of mucus which 

 lines the interior of both the bud and 

 the stock, enable the operator to effect 

 a clean separation of the bark from the 

 "wood, without injury to the texture of 

 either. The ripe mucus sap secures an 

 almost immediate union of the parts. In 

 growing the Pear upon the Quince ; the 

 superiority of this method of propagation 

 is still more marked. Mr. Riveks says : 

 " of twenty grafts set in quince-stocks, it 

 not nnfrequently happens that nineteen will live, but 

 nearly as often that nineteen will die." In my own 

 experience w^th trees grafted upon quince-stock, they 

 have proved to separate more easily at the junction 

 than trees propagated by budding. It is only the 

 bark, and the more recent formations of wood, which 

 unite when brought into contact; and this union is 

 effected hy layers of wood, deposited around the 

 junction, hi the glutinous condition of lymph. 



* Fig. 17, represents a stick of buds, with Icaf-atalka for handlinj 



