46 THE APPLE CULTUBIST. 



Fig. 32. grafting-wax is not applied, the wood of the 

 stock dries up so rapidly that the young shoot 

 withers and dies. 



Budding vs. Grafting. Budding has some ad- 

 vantages over grafting. 1. Budding requires 

 less skill than grafting. Consequently, a young 

 beginner may insert three or four buds in one 

 small stock, with the assurance that one or 

 more will live. Whereas only one cion can be 

 set in a small stock. 2. In case four buds were 

 a to fail, the operation may be repeated every ten 

 days without checking the growth of the stock, 

 which is impracticable when cions are set in 



by ffraftinsr. 3. Varieties of fruit can be bud- 

 Manner of tying J ' f . . r 

 the shoot, , to aed with satisfactory success which can not be 



the stock, 6. 



propagated by grafting. In this latitude po- 

 mologists rarely attempt to graft the peach. But we have 

 seen it stated that in the latitude of Georgia there is no 

 difficulty in grafting the peach successfully. Many other 

 trees and bushes may be budded which can not be graft- 

 ed with success. But old stocks can be grafted in which 

 buds would never live if they were inserted. In such in- 

 stances, the process of grafting is superior to budding. A 

 young tree may be sawed off at the collar of the stem and 

 cions inserted, which will often grow two to four feet high 

 before winter. In case the graft should fail, sprouts would 

 probably start, which could be budded in August. Hence 

 the eminent advantage of understanding both operations, 

 and knowing how to employ either process advantageously 

 when the other fails. If branches of a large tree were graft- 

 ed, and the cions should not live, the young sprouts, which 

 will usually start at the end of the stub, may be budded in 

 August. Many beginners who did not understand how to 

 take advantage of a failure have, in consequence, lost sev- 



