BUDDING OR GRAFTING BY DETACHED BUDS. 



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Fig. 236. 



must be taken from the scion that are nearly mature ; which is readily 

 known both by the size of the bud and by the full expansion and firm 

 texture of the disk of the leaf, in the axis of which it grows. 



Shield-budding in June. Roses of most kinds may be budded at 

 almost any period from June to October. June is, however, the best 

 month for budding ; the shoots from these buds will mostly flower in 

 the autumn of the same year. 



Shield-budding in spring may be exemplified by the Belgian prac- 

 tice with the rose. For this purpose, scions are cut before winter, 

 and stuck into the ground till 

 the moment in spring when the 

 bark of the stock will rise, or, 

 technically speaking, run. To 

 prepare the bud, a transverse cut 

 should be first made into the 

 wood, a little below an eye (fig. 

 236, a), which incision is met 

 by a longer cut downwards, 

 commencing at a short distance 

 above the eye (6), care being 

 taken that a portion of wood is 

 removed with the bark (c). The 

 bud is then inserted into the bark 

 of the stock which is cut like an 

 inverted T (d), and the hori- 

 zontal edges of the cut in the 

 stock and of the bud must 

 be brought into the most perfect contact with each other (e), and then 

 bound with waterproof bast (/), without, however, applying grafting 

 clay. Eight days after the insertion of the bud, the stock is pruned 

 down to the branch above on the opposite side, and this branch is 

 stopped by being cut down to two or three eyes ; all the side-wood is 

 destroyed as it appears ; and when the bud has pushed its fifth leaf, 

 the shoot it has made is compelled to branch, by pinching off its ex- 

 tremity ; it will then flower in September of the same year. The 

 rose may also be budded in spring, with- 

 out waiting till the bark separates, by 

 placing the bud with some wood on it in 

 a niche made in the stock as at (#), similar 

 to what would be formed by taking an 

 eye off it, for budding in the manner 

 above described ; the bud is fitted exactly 

 in the niche, with a slight pressure, and 

 then tied on as usual. The camellia may 

 Shield-budding the also be budded in this manner in spring 

 camellia in spring, by taking a bud with the wood in from Shield - ciraft- 

 the scion, and substituting it for a corre- fj" "' 

 spending piece cut out of the stock, as in fig. 237. 



Shield-grafting without a bud or eye (fig. 238) is used simply to 



Shield-budding the rose in spring. 



Fig. 237. 



Fig. 238. 



