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Oil Budding Trees and Shrubs. 



growing bud ouslit to be used to insure success, though 

 this mode will sometimes succeed with a dormant bud. 

 This method may be very useful, if the tree to be pro- 

 pagated has no young side shoots strong enough to admit 

 of a bud being taken from them. It is particularly suit- 

 able for rare trees, with scaly buds and opposite branches. 

 14. Annular Faite Budding; Grejfe en Flute en 

 Anneau. (fig. W.) — A branch is chosen on the tree 

 which is to be propagated, as thick as, or thicker than, 

 the stock, and a ring of bark, including an eye, is cut from it, and 

 detached by splitting it perpendicularly on one side, 

 and then separating it from the wood by inserting un- 

 der it the spatula-hke handle of the budding-knife. 

 A similar operation is then performed on the stock ; 

 that is to say, a ring of bark, exactly of the same size, 

 is detached from the stem in the same manner, but 

 without caring whether there are buds on it or not. 

 In its place is put the ring taken from the branch to 

 be propagated, with the precaution of making the iimer barks join 

 together exactly both at top and bottom. No binding is applied ; 

 but the whole is covered \vith grafting-clay (ongueiit de St. Fiacre) 

 or grafting-wax. Neither the branches nor tlie head of the stock 

 are to be cut down till the bud has taken. The two periods most 

 favorable for this sort of budding are, the time of the greatest move- 

 ment of the sap in the spring, and at tlie end of its greatest move- 

 ment in August. This mode of budding has the advantage of never 

 mutilating the stock ; because, if it does not take, the bark of the 

 ring supplies the place of that taken away. It is not only suitable 

 for the propagation of walnut trees, but also for the increase of all 

 rare trees with hard wood, such as the American oaks and chestnuts. 



15. Split Flute Budding; Greffe en Flute Jendue. — The only 

 difference between this and the preceding mode is, that, if the ring 

 of bark containing the bud is larger than the space pref)ared for it 

 on the stock, a piece must be taken from it longitudinally, so as to 

 make it fit exactly. 



16. Flute Budding by close Contact, Tube Budding; Greffe 

 en Flute par Juxtaposition, ou en Siffiet. — The head of the stock 

 being cut off, a ring of bark, 2 in. or 3 in. long, is removed. A 

 shoot is then taken from the tree to be increased, of exactly the 

 same thickness as the stock, and a ring 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 the 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 round, so as, when secured by grafting-clay, to keep it in 



