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cent improvements, it has been ascertained that 

 grafting and budding may be successfully performed 

 as late as August and the first part of September, pro- 

 vided the weatber should continue warm, taking the 

 scions directly from the tree; and the operation may 

 be repeated in case of failure, on the same stock, 

 several times in the season. If therefore, the scion 

 should not manifest signs of active vegetation in ten 

 or twelve days after being inserted, the stock may 

 be again sawed down and a new scion introduced. 

 Our chance of success may also be increased by a 

 double process, that is, by introducing one or more 

 buds into the same stock with the engrafted scion 5 

 and these operations being occasionally repeated, we 

 shall seldom fail of complete success. A bud taken 

 from a scion or twig of the last year, if inserted in 

 April, will immediately sprout and have the same ad- 

 vantage as the engrafted scion. 



BUDDING, OR INOCULATING. 



By the process of budding, we obtain the same re- 

 sult as in grafting ; with this difference, however, the 

 bud being a shoot in embryo, grafted trees usually 

 produce fruit two seasons earlier than budded 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 beau- 

 tiful spectacle. Buds are formed at the bases of the 

 foot stalks of the leaves, and arc 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 

 flowers are sometimes produced by the same bud, and 

 they are generally employed, in budding, without dis- 



