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BUDDING OR GRAFTING BY DETACHED BUDS. 



Fig. 247. 



flute-budding in Spring. The scions are taken off in autumn, or 

 early in winter, and preserved through the winter in a cool shady 

 situation, in the same manner as is done in grafting 

 by detached scions, and in spring shield-budding. 

 Fig. 247, which requires no description, shows the 

 mode of spring terminal flute-budding the white 

 mulberry, as it is practised in the royal nurseries 

 at Munich. When the ring of the scion is too 

 large, a portion is cut out of it longitudinally, so 

 as to admit of its being pressed closely and firmly 

 to the stock ; and when it is too small, it is slit up 

 so as to admit of its being put round the stock. 

 The tube is tied on with matting, and the summit 

 of the stock is covered with grafting wax. 



Terminal Jlute-budding in the South of France 

 (fig. 248). The head of the stock being cut off, 

 a ring of bark, two inches or three inches long, 

 is removed. A shoot is then taken from the tree 

 to be increased, of exactly the same thickness as 

 the stock, and a ring or tube of bark is taken off 

 the thick end (without being split longitudinally), 

 not quite so long as the piece of bark taken off the 

 stock, but provided with several good eyes. The 

 tube thus formed is placed upon the stock in the 

 room of the one removed, and care is taken to 

 make the two edges of bark join below. The part 

 of the stock which projects over the ring of the 

 bark is next split into shreds, and brought down 

 over it all round, in the same manner as when 

 mulberry "in'spring. secured by grafting wax or clay. This mode of 

 budding is chiefly employed in the South of France 

 for propagating walnuts, chestnuts, figs, mulberries, and other trees 

 with thick bark and abundant pith. 



Flute-budding with Strips of Bark (fig. 249). The head of the stock 

 is cut off, but instead of re- 

 moving a ring of bark, as in 

 the preceding mode, it is cut 

 longitudinally into four or five 

 strips, each two inches or three 

 pjj XJ inches long, and turned down 

 as in the figure, being left still 

 |i attached to the tree. From a 



shoot of the tree to be pro- 

 pagated, a tube of bark is 

 LJS taken, furnished with four 



Terminal or five e y^s, rather shorter 

 flute-budding than the strips, though longer 

 in spring or than in tube-budding. When 

 summer. the tube of the gcion ig 



Flute-budding the 



Fig. 248. 



Fig. 249. 



Flute-budding with strips of 

 lark. 



