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early in the spring, as the operation can be performed to a much 

 better advantage, and the buds will grow to some height before winter. 

 When inserted in large orchard trees, or in limbs of large trees, the 

 shoots from the inserted buds are allowed to grow until they have 

 attained such a size as will justify in the removal of the entire top. 



Twig Budding. Twig budding is very successful. The bud is 

 cut deep into the wood, in order to give the bud as much bark as pos- 

 sible. The leaves are partly cut off ; then, with the sharp point of the 

 budding knife, the greater part of the wood inside of the bud is 

 removed, as shown in the picture. If part of the wood is not removed, 

 then the bud can not take, as the wood in it prevents the two barks 

 (the inner bark of the bud and the inner bark of the stock) from 

 uniting. When the wood has been partly removed from the bud, the 

 bud is inserted into the stock, as budding is done in the regular, 



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 Olive: Twig-Bud as cut. Olive: Twig-Bud Inserted. 



ordinary way, and tied tight. A small tip-twig may be used or a longer 

 twig, cut back to the lowest bud and part of the foliage cut away, as 

 shown in the engraving. At the end of three or four weeks the string 

 is removed, and part of the top of the stock is cut back to force the 

 bud to start. As the bud grows, the foliage of the stock is gradually 

 removed, until the bud is able to take up the entire flow of sap; it is 

 then left to grow, and it may be protected by tying to a long stub of 

 the branch which may be left for that purpose above the point of 

 insertion. When the bud has grown out strongly, what remains of 

 the stock above the bud is cut smooth, close to the bud, to allow it to 

 heal over. 



Flap-Budding the Olive. Although the use of a twig with a 

 pushing bud is to be commended strongly a dormant bud can be forced 

 into activity quite successfully. Mr. C. A. Wetmore describes this 

 method : 



Late in the spring, when advancing warmth has set the sap to moving freely, 

 observe a tree of the kind you desire to propagate. Notice parts of limbs with 



