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on a six-foot handle, to trim the tops and extremities of the 

 branches, are all the tools that are required. A large saw 

 will be occasionally wanted ; but an axe or hatchet should 

 never be employed, as they fracture the wood, bruise aiid 

 tear the bark, and disfigure the tree. 



BUDDING AND GRAFTING FRUIT TREES. 



Budding and Grafting, Lindley observes, are operations 

 that equally depend for their success upon the property that 

 buds possess of shooting roots downward, and stems up- 

 ward ; but in these practices, the roots strike between the 

 bark and wood of the stock, instead of into the earth, and 

 form new layers of wood, instead of subterranean fibres. 

 The success of such practices, however, depends upon other 

 causes than those which influence the growth of cuttings. 

 It is necessary that an adhesion should take place between 

 the scion and the stock, so that when the descending fibres 

 of the buds shall have fixed themselves upon the wood of 

 the stock, they may not be liable to subsequent separation. 

 No one can have studied the economy of the vegetable 

 kingdom, without having remarked that there is a strong 

 tendency to cohesion in bodies or parts that are placed in 

 contact with each other. 



BUDDING, OR INOCULATING. 



To bud trees, let the following method be adopted : Pro- 

 cure a knife which has a thin blade, and a sharp ivory han- 

 dle ; the use of the blade is to prepare the buds, and the 

 handle is used to raise the bark of the stocks, so that the 

 buds can be easily inserted. Have some good strong bass 

 in readiness, and then take some good thrifty sprigs from 

 of the sorts you intend to propagate. When 

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