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BUDDING OR GRAFTING BY DETACHED BUDS. 



Fig. 243. 



are forced to grow in a direction opposite to that which they would have 

 taken naturally ; but they soon resume their usual position ; and the desired 



end, viz., that of increasing the 



size of the fruit by stagnating 



the returning sap, is thus by 



no means attained. De Can- 



dolle says, that this mode of 



budding is used advantageously 



in the case of the olive, and of 



trees which produce a great 



deal of gum ; but that he sees 



no reason for its superiority i[_ 



over the ordinary mode. Fig 244t Budd ing Flg , 2 ^ Buddinff 



(Phys. Veg. vol. ii. p. 800.) with the shield with a pointed 



687. Shield-budding for re- re <*> shield for resin- 



ftL m*\ -j z ous trees. 



sinous trees (fig. 245) is said to 

 Punch used for succeed with the ^bietinese, and with all trees that have a 

 ^hMd-buds"* g ummv and verv abundant sap. 



688. Budding with the shield covered (fig. 246). The shield 

 being inserted in the usual manner, another with an orifice in it, to admit 



the bud of the first, is laid over it, 

 and is bandaged in the usual man- 

 ner, or covered with grafting-wax. 

 The object of the double shield is to 

 lessen the effect of drying winds. 



689. Budding with a square shield 

 (fig. 247) is an old practice which 

 has lately been revived with some 

 Bud modifications (Gard. Mag. for 1839, -- 

 with U a P- 165), in which the bark, raised Fl 's- 247 

 double shield, up on the stock to make room for 

 the shield, is tied over it ; the shield being previously shortened, so as to 

 reach only to the under side of the bud ; and between the two barks, the 



petiole of a leaf is 

 inserted, the disk of 

 which is intended 

 to protect the bud 

 from the sun. The 

 strip of bark being 

 peeled down from 

 the stock, instead 

 of being raised up 

 from it by the spa- 

 tula of the bud- 

 Fig. 248. Budding with a terminal eye. ding-knife, is found 



to lessen the risk of injuring the soft wood ; and this appears to be the chief 

 recommendation of this mode of budding. 



690. Shield-budding with a terminal bud (fig. 248) is supposed to produce 

 a more vigorous shoot than when a lateral eye is used ; and it is, therefore, 

 recommended for supplying a leader to a shoot that has lost one. The stock 

 is cut as at a, and the bud is prepared as at &, inserted as at c, and tied in the 

 usual manner, as at d. 



Budding with a square 

 shield. 



