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REVIEWS AND EXTRACTS. 



11 or tube of bark is taken off the thick end, without being 



split longitudinally, not quite so long as the piece of bark 

 taken off the stock, but provided with two or three good 

 eyes. The tube thus formed is placed upon the stock in 

 the room of the one taken away, and care is taken to make 

 tbe two edges of bark join below. The part of the stock 

 which projects over the ring of bark is next split into shreds, 

 and brought down over it all around, so as, when secured 

 by grafting-clay, to keep it in its place. This mode of 

 budding is chiefly employed in the south of France for pro- 

 pagating Walnuts, Chestnuts, Figs, Mulberries, and other 

 trees with thick bark and abundant pith. 



17. Common Flute Budding ; Greffe en Flute ordinaire, 

 (jig. 12.) — The head of the stock is cut off; but, instead of removing a ring 



of bark, as in the preceding mode, it is cut 

 longitudinally into four or five strips, and 

 turned down as in the figure, being left still 

 attached to the tree. From a shoot of the 

 tree to be propagated, a tube of bark is taken, 

 furnished with four or five eyes, rather 

 shorter than the strips, though longer than 

 in tube budding. When the tube of the 

 scion is slipped on the stock, the strips of 

 bark are raised over it, and fastened at the 

 top by a ligature. This method of budding 

 is in very general use both in France and 

 Germany. 



18. Flute Budding in Shreds, with the Slock cut obliquely ,• Greffe en Flute 

 el en Laniere. — This is nothing more than the mode above described, with 

 the end of the stock cut obliquely, as shown at a in Jig. 12, instead of being 

 left to be afterwards cut into shreds and turned down over the tube of bark, 

 as in tube budding, No. 16, fig. 11. 



II. Herbaceous Grafting. Greffe Herbacie. 

 1. Grafting upon fleshy or tuberculous Roots ; Greffe sur Racines charnucs 

 ou turbuculeuscs. (jig. 13.) — It not unfrequently happens that a tubercle of 



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a Georgina root is found without eyes ; and, when this 

 is the case, notwithstanding all the care of the cultiva- 

 tor, it may remain in the ground one or two years with- 

 out budding, till at last it rots. This imperfection is 

 easily discovered if the neck of the tuber is looked at 

 attentively, for it is always there that the buds are 

 found. In this case, as soon as a Georgina bud upon 

 some other tuber has begun to germinate, it is picked 

 out with the point of the grafting-knife, and is taken 

 away with a small piece of the tubercle adhering to it. 

 On the neck of the barren tubercle a small hole is 

 made, in which the bud is inserted, but in such a man- 

 ner as that the base of the bud shall be perfectly on a 

 level with the surface of the tubercle ; and it is cemented 

 with grafting-wax. The tubercle is then planted in a pot, taking care not to 

 cover the neck on which the graft is, and the pot is plunged in a hot-bed 

 under glass. When the graft has taken properly, 

 the plant is turned out into the open border. 



2. Herbaceous Fttrrow-Grajliiir/ for vertical Shoots ; 

 Greffe hcrbueee en Rainure pour les Oinnitiges. (Jig. 

 11.) — A bud with a triangular slice of bark and 

 wood, when in a soft or herbaceous state, is cut out 

 of the scion, and inserted in a corresponding groove 

 made in the stock, as shown in the figure; a ligature 

 is applied, and afterwards grafting-wax. This mode 

 of grafting succeeds both with the young wood of 

 trees and with herbaceous plants, whether peren- 

 nial ox annual. M. Tschovdy gave the arbitrary 



