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PROPAGATION BY DIVISION. [CHAP. IV. 



be left long- enough to be tied with bows and 

 ends, that the ligature may be loosened and 

 tied again without deranging the position of 

 the bud, as soon as it begins to grow. The first 

 sign of the bud having taken, as it is called, is 



Fig. 11. mode of budding a rose tree. 



when the petiole of the leaf {a mjig. 11.) drops 

 on being very slightly touched with the finger ; 

 but the ligature should not be loosened till the 

 bud begins to throw out leaves ; and then it 

 should be retied only a little slacker than 

 before, until the bud is firmly united with the 

 stock. 



In France, buds are only applied to a part 

 of the stock from which a bud has been taken, 

 so that the bud of the scion may exactly sup- 



