CHAP, rv.] BUDDING. 77 



plv the place of the original bud of the plant. 

 But this precaution, though certainly founded 

 on reason, is seldom attended to in England. 



Budding, though sometimes used for apples 

 and pears, when the spring grafts have failed, 

 is most commonly applied to roses : it is, how- 

 ever, occasionally used for inserting eyes in the 

 tubers of the dahlia. The root of the dahlia 

 consists of a number of tubers collected toge- 

 ther, each of which should be furnished with 

 an eve or bud at its summit, so as to form a 

 ring round what is called the crown of the root, 

 from which the stems of the plant are to spring. 

 When the plant is to be propagated, the tubers 

 are divided, and planted separately, and each 

 that has a bud at its summit will send up a stem, 

 and will become a new plant. Sometimes, 

 however, it happens that several of the tubers 

 are devoid of buds, and that others have more 

 than one; and, when this is the case, one of 

 the buds is scooped out, and, a notch being 

 made in the top of the barren tuber to receive 

 it, the bud is fitted in, and the point of junc- 

 tion covered with grafting-wax. The tuber 

 must then be planted in a pot, with the budded 

 part above the soil; and the pot plunged into a 

 hotbed till the bud begins to push, when the 

 tuber may be planted out into the open ground. 



What is called flute-grafting is, in fact, a 

 kind of budding; as it consists in taking a ring 

 of bark, on which there is a bud, off a shoot ; 

 and then supplying its place with a ring of bark, 

 with a bud attached, from another tree : placing 

 the supposititious bud as nearly as possible in 

 the position of the true bud. Sometimes, how- 



