42 BUDDING, GRAFTING, INARCHING, ETC [CH. 



to be observed are these : the sap must be active, the root 



action healthy, the incision must be cleanly made, and the 



binding not too tight. 



The Galbreath Budder is a recent ingenious invention, 



which claims to make the transfer of buds from their old 



to their new limbs safe and easy. 



The tool consists of two handles like those of a 



pruning scissors, working on 

 a pivot, and to the end of 

 each a pair of concave blades 

 is screwed, so that when the 

 handles are drawn together 

 and turned round, an incision 

 is made round the bark of 

 the branch above and below 

 the bud, and the complete 

 ring of the bark cut from the 



branch, as shown in the annexed figure. 



The branch to which the bud is to be transferred is 



similarly treated, the space from which its bark is taken 



corresponding exactly to the ring of bark with the new 



bud which it is to receive. 



Grafting is the process by which most hardy kinds 

 of fruit trees are propagated. Seedling fruit trees are 

 generally good for nothing, and should be grafted when 

 young with choicer proved sorts. Healthy old trees are 

 often practically worthless, but may by this simple process 

 be converted in a very few years into fruitful and vigorous 



