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Propagation. 



of the footstalks of the leaves should remain, to serve as handles 

 to the buds while inserting them, Fig. 50. After being thus di- 



Fig- 45- 



Fig. 46. Fig. 47. Fig. 48. 



Successive stages of budding. 



Fig. 49- 



vested of leaves, they may be safely kept a week in a cool, damp 

 place, or sent hundreds of miles in damp moss, or encased sepa- 

 rately in thin oil-cloth. 



When, by growth of the stock, 

 the bandage cuts into it, usually 

 in ten days or more, it must be 

 removed. The bud remains dor- 

 mant till the following spring, 

 when the stock is cut off two 

 inches or more above it, before 

 the swelling of the bud. If cut 

 closer, the end of the stock be- 

 comes too dry, and the bud often 

 perishes. All other buds must 

 be then removed, and all the 

 vigor of the stock or branch 

 thrown into the remaining bud, 

 which immediately commences a 

 rapid growth. 



To secure a straight and erect 

 tree, the new shoot, when a few 

 inches long, is tied to the remain- 

 ing stump of the stock, Fig. 51. 

 Stick ****, Tying tteywng shoot. By another month, no further 



