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BUDDING OR GRAFTING BY DETACHED BUDS. 



cover a wound or blemish in one tree by a portion of the live bark of 

 another. 



Budding with a circular shield, with a portion of wood attached 

 (fig. 239), is employed to equalize the flower-buds over a tree, by 

 Fi 239 removing some from places where there 

 ' are too many to other places in which 

 CJr there are too few. With the point of a 

 penknife, in spring, cut a small cone of 

 bark and wood containing a bud, and 

 insert it in an orifice made in the same 

 manner, securing the edges with graft- 

 ing wax. 



Budding with a shield stamped out by 

 a punch (fig. 240) is considered excellent 



Budding with f or budding old trees, the thick and rugged ,,. 

 a circular , , f ? . , . .^ , , ,9 Budding 



shield. bark of wmch is not suitable for being ^ O f c 



taken off with the budding-knife. With 

 a mallet the punch (fig. 241) is driven through the bark of the scion, 

 and then through that of the stock, and the piece which comes 

 out of the former is inserted in the cavity formed by taking the piece 

 out of the latter. 



Budding with the shield re- 

 versed (fig. 242) is almost the 

 only manner of budding used in 

 the south of Europe, particu- 

 larly at Genoa and Hieres, to 

 propagate orange-trees. It is 

 said also to be suitable for trees 

 having abundant and gummy 

 sap. 



Budding with the Eye turned 

 Downwards. By this method 

 the buds are forced to grow in 



Fig. 241. 



Fig. 242. 



by the 

 of a punch. 



Fig. 243. 



treeSt 



a direction opposite to that which Buddi with 

 they would have taken naturally; the shield re- 

 Punch used but tnev soon resume their usual versed. 

 for punch- position ; and the desired end 

 ing out v iz., that of increasing the size of the fruit by stagnating the 

 shield-buds. return i n g sa p j i s thus by no means attained. De Candolle 

 says, that this mode of budding is used advantageously in the case 

 of the olive, and of trees which produce a great deal of gum, but that 

 he sees no reason for attributing to it any superiority over the ordinary 

 mode. 



Shield-budding for resinous trees (fig. 243) is said to succeed with 

 the Abietineae, and with all trees that have a gummy and very abun- 

 dant sap. 



Budding with the Shield Covered (fig. 244). The shield being inserted 

 in the usual manner, another with an orifice in it, to admit the bud of 

 the first, is laid over it, and is bandaged in the usual manner, or 



