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HORTICULTURE 



ECT. in 



satisfactory fruitful bush by any amount of after 

 pruning. The cross marks are points of shortening 

 for increasing the number of branches, as foreshadowed 

 by the dotted lines, but the suckers spoil the bush or 

 tree and might have been easily prevented. 



Budding. Every good well-matured growth bud, 

 not blossom bud, on a tree contains the rudiments of 



p IG . 7. PREPARING AND INSERTING CUTTINGS WITH RESULTING GROWTH. 



a plant, or tree, of like kind ; and a bud can be trans- 

 planted so to say from one tree into another of a 

 different variety, but of the same species or kind, and 

 it will grow. Thus rose buds inserted in briars will 



