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between the cambium of both stock and scion. At this stage 

 the ligature is removed. 



" When budding is performed during the first months of 

 vegetation, that is to say with growing eye, we obtain the 

 first year a straight shoot, which may bear fruit the follow- 



Fig. 140. 

 Salgues Budding. 



Knitted bud 



ligature is removd. 



ing year. In this case one should shorten the stock 5 to 6 

 inches above the graft as soon as the latter is knitted. If, 

 on the contrary, budding is only performed in July or the 

 beginning of August, that is to say with dormant eyes, this 

 latter operation is useless, as the bud only starts growing the 

 following year."* 



Budding might render great services with varieties not 

 rooting freely, such as Berlandieris. The canes of this 

 cepage might be budded on a layer, . thus giving a grafted 

 rootling. 



* J. Gabarret: De la %reffe en ecusson de la vigne: Greffe Salines. 



