218 AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



they are simply tapering bricks of divers fashions and sizes, of 

 which one end is formed as a tablet, upon which the name or 

 number is imprinted while soft, or painted on, and afterward 

 properly glazed and burned hard, Fig. 102 c, d. 



TIES. 



Strips of the ordinary Russian bass mat, common in our fur- 

 niture stores, though generally called " garden" mats, or sim- 

 ilar strips of the inner bark of our own bass-wood-tree, or of 

 the willow, or the leather- wood, Dirca, or the paper mulberry, 

 or of well-kept corn-husk, or coarse yarn, or cheap cotton twine, 

 or candle-wick, or strips of rag, may all be used in various 

 ways as ties, and some of them should be kept at hand for the 

 purpose. But for securing trees when staked, straw bands are 

 used. 



CHAPTER XV. 



Nature of Budding. Bud Scions. Stocks for, and Modes and Times of 

 Budding. After-treatment, &c. 



BUDDING. 



BUDDING is a process suited, with lew exceptions, to all 

 kinds of trees and shrubs, and should be generally preferred to 

 grafting for its simplicity and ease. 



The knives for this purpose, figured page 211, are the only 

 forms really suitable for expert and rapid work, but the opera- 

 tion may be performed with a common pen or pocket knife. 



Budding and grafting, though appearing somewhat difficult 

 in description, which is necessarily prolix, are really very sim- 

 ple operations, which any whittling boy or smart girl may per- 

 form, and succeed on the very first trial ; and, with the facili- 

 ties for the cheap and rapid transmission of scions or grafts 

 afforded by our present mail rates, the author has pleasure in 

 anticipating that many young persons will avail themselves of 

 the instructions here given, and plant and bud or graft choice 

 fruits for coming years. 



As a matter of curiosity, either grafting or budding may be 



