NEW METHODS OF GRAFTING AND BUDDING. 



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A circular incision, penetrating the whole depth of the bark, is 

 made -inch above and another the same distance below the bud (a, 5) ; 

 then on the right and left of the bud two longitudinal parallel incisions 

 are made, joining the annular incisions. The bud thus prepared (c) 

 should be placed on a shoot of as nearly as possible the same diameter 

 as that from which it was taken. But the indispensable point, which 

 marks the difference between ordinary budding and Professor Hor- 

 wath's method, is that the bud must be placed or inserted in place of 

 another bud on a node. 



The green shoot to be used as stock having been chosen, and on 

 the latter the bud where the graft is to be made determined, the leaf 

 on that node is removed (c) . Two semi-annular incisions are made 

 (a , &') at the same dis- 

 tances as on the scion, and 

 a single longitudinal cut is 

 made passing through the 

 bark, dividing the petiole in 

 two and joining the annu- 

 lar incisions. Then with 

 the spatula of the grafting 

 knife the bark is lifted on 

 both sides so as to form two 

 flaps, as in ordinary bud- 

 ding. The flaps being open , 

 the scion is inserted (d) , 

 the flaps brought over it 

 and the joint ligated. A 

 fortnight or twenty days 

 after, this is cut off. This 

 graft has given good results, 

 but is a lengthy and delicate 

 operation . 



Salgues Graft. 



The Salgues graft (Figs. 

 3 and 4) consists of fixing 

 on a green shoot of the year 

 an elliptic scion or shield 

 carrying a bud at its cen- 



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ter. It is budding, but so FlG 3 



modified as to be cohsid- SALGUES GRAFT. (Original.} 



ered a new method; the grafts obtained are perfect and the joints 



invisible except for a slight swelling. 



