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its place. This mode of budding is chieHy employed in the south 

 of France for propagating walnuts, chestnuts, figs, mulberries, and 

 other trees with thick bark and abundant pith. 



17. Common Flute Budding ; Greff'e en Flute ordinaire. (Jig. 

 12.^ — Tlie 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, each 2 in. or 3 inches 

 long, 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 bud- 

 ding is in very general use both in France and Germany. 



18. Flute Budding in Shreds, icith the Stock cut obliquely; 

 Greffe en Flute et en Lanicre. — 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. 



II. Herbaceous Grafting. Greffe Herbocee. 



1. Grafting upon Jleshy or tuberculous Roots; Greffe sur Ra- 

 cines chranucs ou tubcrculeuses. (Jig. 13.^ — It not unfrequently 

 happens that a tubercle of a georgina root is found without eyes ; 



and, when this is the case, notwithstanding all the 

 care of tlie cultivator, it may remain in the ground 

 one or two years without 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 

 grafiing-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 tlie bud is inserted, but in such a 

 manner as that the base ol' 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 w'hich the graft is, and the pot is plunged in a hot-bed un- 

 der glass. When the graft has taken properly, the plant is turned 

 out into the open border. 



2. Herbaceous Furroiv- Grafting for vertical Shoots; Greffe 

 herbacee en Rainure pour les Omnitiges. (fig. 14.J — A bud with 



