BUDDING OR GRAFTING BY DETACHED BUDS. 



27 L 



Budding with a square 

 shield. 



covered with grafting wax. The object of the double shield is to 

 lessen the effect of drying winds. 



Fig. 244. Budding with a square shield p^ 245. 



(tig. 245) is an old practice 



which has lately been revived 



with some modifications. When 



this mode is practised the 



bark raised up on the stock 



to make room for the shield 



is tied over it ; the shield being 



previously shortened, so as to 



reach only to the under side of 

 Budding with the bud ; and between the two 

 a double barks, the petiole of a leaf is in- 

 dd ' serted, the disk of which is in- 

 tended to protect the bud from the sun. The strip of bark being peeled 

 down from the stock, instead of being raised up from it by the spatula 

 of the budding-knife, is found to lessen the risk of injuring the soft 

 wood ; and this 



appears to be the Fig. 246. 



chief recommen- 

 dation of this 

 mode of budding. 

 Shield-budding 

 with a terminal 

 bud (fig. 246) is 

 supposed to pro- 

 duce a more vi- 

 gorous shoot than 

 when a lateral 

 eye is used ; and 

 it is, therefore, 

 recommended for 



supplying a leader to a shoot that has lost one. The stock is cut as at 

 a, and the bud is prepared as at b, inserted as at c, and tied in the usual 

 manner, as at d. 



Flute-budding, or Tube-budding. There are several modifications of 

 this mode of budding, which is a good deal used on the Continent for 

 trees which are difficult to take, such as the walnut and the chestnut ; 

 and for several oaks, as well as for the white mulberry. It is gene- 

 rally performed in spring ; but it will also succeed in autumn. The 

 shoot from which the buds are to be taken, and that on which they 

 are to be placed, must be of the same diameter, or nearly so ; and a 

 ring being removed from each, that from the stock is thrown away, 

 and the one from the scion put on in its stead. Sometimes this is 

 done without shortening the stock or branch, when it is called annular, 

 or ring-budding ; and sometimes the stock is shortened, and the ring 

 put on its upper extremity,' when it is called flute-budding, or ter- 

 minal tube-budding. 



Budding with a terminal eye. 



