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towards b the bark having been previously raised and opened a little 

 with the bone handle of the knife. The diagram to the right shows 

 the layers of bark, cambium (c) and wood with the base of the bud d 

 in the centre. If a thin strip of wood adheres to the bud when first 

 cut from the shoot it may be easily removed by a slight 

 bend and a twitch with the point of the knife blade 

 between finger and thumb. Care, however, is taken in 

 removing this plant not to bring the core of the bud 

 with it. Should this happen, as it sometimes does, the 

 bud is useless. Another method of budding is shown 

 at fig. 439, called inverted T-budding, but it is rarely 

 or never practised in British nurseries, although it has 

 advocates on the Continent. Fig. 440 shows how the 

 buds are inserted and tied on the upper shoots of a 

 standard or half-standard stock. 



GRAFTING ROSES. Thousands of Roses are grafted 

 under glass each year between January and March, both 

 on the Brier and Manetti stocks, for the trade in pot Roses. The stocks 

 are lifted from the open and placed in a genial warm light soil a few 

 weeks in advance of the budding season. The increased warmth excites 

 the flow of the sap in the stocks, and once this is secured they may be 

 budded at once. The kinds to be grafted 

 must also have been started into growth 



Fig. 439. -In verted 

 T-budding 



Fig. 440. Budding Standard Brier Shoots 



Fig. 441. Side Grafting Roses 



in gentle heat to bring the sap into motion and thus secure the quicker 

 union of the cambium layers in both stock and scion. Fig. 441 shows a 

 piece of rooted Rose stock with the scion on the left, and on the right how 

 they are placed together, at least one edge flush with the other, before 

 being tied up with raffia. This is known as side grafting, and differs 



