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put on the cement or composition, and tie with bass? 

 or soft strings. Sever the shoots or suckers from 

 the tree until the succeeding spring. To make good 

 the deficiency in case some grafts do not succeed, 

 additional grafts may be inserted in the sides of the 

 branches, or where they are wanted to form the 

 tree into a handsome shape." 

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BUDDING, OR INOCULATING. 



By the process of budding, we obtain the same 

 result as in grafting; with this difference, however, 

 the bud being a shoot in embryo, grafted trees 

 usually produce fruit two seasons earlier than bud- 

 ded trees. Each bud may be considered a distinct 

 being, which will form a plant retaining precisely 

 the peculiarities of the parent stock; and five or 

 six species of fruit may be budded on one tree, 

 which, when attained to the maturity of bearing- 

 fruit, exhibit a singular and beautiful spectacle. 

 Buds are formed at the bases of the foot stalks of 

 the leaves, and are of two kinds, those which bear 

 leaves, and those which bear flowers. The leaf 

 buds are small, long, and pointed ; the flower buds 

 are thick, short, and round. Both- leaves and flow- 

 ers are sometimes produced by the same bud, and 

 they are generally employed, in budding, without 

 distinction ; but the bud should always be of the 

 same genus with the tree or branch, which is to 

 receive it. The blossom buds are formed by the 

 first sap between April and June, and are filled 

 by the second sap between July and October. 

 The proper season for budding, is from the begin- 

 ning of July to the end of August, at which period 

 the buds for next year are completely formed in 

 the axilla of the leaf of the* present year, and they 

 are known to be ready, from their easily parting 

 from the wood. The buds preferred, are the 

 shortest observed on the middle of a young shoot, 



