VIIL] "DIFFERENT VARIETIES SAME SPECIES 



they can only be very imperfectly described here ; indeed, 

 the processes must be illustrated by actual experiment before 

 they can be properly understood. Those which chiefly 

 concern the amateur gardener are the operations known as 

 budding, grafting, inarching, layering, and striking 

 cuttings. 



Budding is the insertion of a bud (2) cut away from the 

 plant which it is desired to 

 propagate, ( I ) along with a 

 portion of its bark, into the 

 bark of another plant, (3) to 

 which it is bound (4) gently 

 but firmly. Every well 

 matured growth bud (not 

 blossom bud) contains the 

 rudiments of a plant of the 

 like kind, and a bud can be 

 transferred from one plant 

 into another of a different 

 variety, but of the same 

 species, e.g. Rose buds transferred to Dog Briars will grow, 

 but they will not grow in any plant differing in its nature 

 from a Rose. Apple buds may be inserted into a Crab tree, 

 but not into a Plum, nor a Plum into a Pear. Budding 

 must be done after midsummer July or September, when 

 the trees are in full growth, the buds well formed, and the 

 sap active. No time must be lost in the process, or the sap 

 will evaporate from both stock and bud. The chief points 



