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SEEDLING PROPAGATION OF YAKIETIES. 



the stock, as in Fig. 26 ; raise it from the wood, and 

 push in the bud, by the leaf-stalk. You may now 

 cut off the bark above the bud, so that it will exactly 

 tit the cross incision, and tie the whole gently, but 

 firmly, with strips of bass matting, as at Fig. 27. 

 Tlie ties should be loosened in two or three weeks 

 after the budding is finished, and entirely removed 

 before winter sets in. 



Pi-. 26. 



Fig. 27. 



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Fig. 26. Bud with wood removed, and stock cut for insertion. 

 Fig. 27. Bud inserted and tied. 



Budding is occasionally performed in spring, but 

 not to any extent in commercial nurseries ; nor is it 

 universally successful, although a convenient process, 

 when buds wduch were inserted the preyious summer 

 have failed. 



Tlie period for budding the Pear extends from the 

 middle of July to the middle of September — the pre- 



