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thereby to strike more readily. It will be found more 

 convenient to put the cuttings in lines, or where there are 

 only a few they may be put in bunches, and bell glasses 

 placed over. Frames will be found very useful for cuttings. 



Buds and Leaves. 



Another method of propagation is by buds and leaves. 

 These are not applied so extensively as propagation by 

 cuttings, but still have their uses. When it is especially 

 desired to increase the stock of a particular plant let us 

 take a currant tree for example every bud may be propa- 



FIG. 84. FIG. 85. 



A trench for cuttings. A bud cutting. 



gated if cut off as shown in the accompanying illustration 

 (Fig. 85). This method of propagation is invariably used 

 with the vine. There is also a process known as budding, 

 which will be familiar to all rose growers, by which we take 

 a living bud off one tree and insert it within the bark of 

 another, and thus obtain a new variety. It is hardly 

 necessary to mention the process here as it can be gleaned 

 from all works on the subject, and is yearly figured in the 

 horticultural periodicals. Suffice it to give a few general 

 remarks. Cut out the bud at a time when the bark parts 

 freely from the wood ; see that the bud is left whole and 



entire ; do not cut out the bud until you are ready to insert 

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