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PROPAGATION BY DIVISION. [CHAP. IV. 



ever, this is not thought necessary ; 

 and the ring of bark is taken from 

 any part of the stock; though it is 

 always replaced by a ring of bark con- 

 taining a bud from the scion. There 

 are many other kinds of budding, but, 

 as the principles are the same in all, it 

 is not necessary to detail them here. 

 The blade of the budding-knife {jig. 

 12.) should be short, and it should 

 curve outwards, to lessen the danger 

 of wounding the wood when making 

 the incisions. 



The principal points to be attended 

 to in budding are : to choose a fresh 

 healthy bud ; to separate the bark to 

 which it is attached, without wound- 

 ing it, quite cleanly from the wood ; 

 to make a clear incision through the 

 bark of the stock, and to raise it from 

 the wood without wounding it ; to 

 press the bark containing the bud so 

 closely to the wood of the stock that 

 no air can remain between them ; and 

 to perform the operation in moist wea- 

 ther, not earlier than the last week in 

 July, nor later than the first week in 

 September. Of these points the most 

 important are, the joining closely of 

 the bark of the bud to the wood of 

 the stock, and the performing of the 

 operation in moist, or at least in cloudy 

 weather; and, if these are attended 

 to, there is little doubt of success. 

 When the young shoot begins to grow, 



