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ration, provide a sharp budding-knife, with a flat thin; 

 haft, of ivory, suitable to open the bark of the stock 

 for the admission of the bud, and algo with a quantity 

 of bass strings, or shreds of Russian mats, or woollen 

 3 T arn, to bind round it when inserted. On a smooth 

 part of the bark of the stock a transverse section is 

 made through the bark down to the wood ; from this 

 is made a longitudinal cut downward, about an inch 

 and a half long, so that the incision may somewhat 

 resemble a Roman T ; by means of the flat ivory haft 

 of the budding-knife the bark is raised a little on each 

 side of the longitudinal incision, so as to receive the 

 bud. The prepared bud is placed in the upper part 

 of the incision so made, and drawn downwards ; the 

 upper part is then cut off transversely, and the bud 

 pushed upwards till the bark of the bud and of the 

 stock join together. It is retained in this situation by 

 means of tying with strands of bass, matting, or wool- 

 len yarn, applied in such manner as to defend the 

 whole from, the air and sun, but leaving the leafstalk, 

 and the projecting part of the bud, uncovered. In 

 about tenor twelve clays after the operation, the ty- 

 ing is slackened ; buds, that have taken, appear swell- 

 ed, and the foot stalk of the old leaf falls oil on being 

 slightly touched. The head of the stock is not re- 

 moved till the following March ; after this, the bud 

 grows vigorously, and, in the course of the summer, 

 makes a considerable shoot. Against the next spring 

 the shoot is headed down in the manner of young 

 grafted trees. 



Mr. Knight, the celebrated English horticulturalist, 

 has adopted the following improved mode of budding, 

 to accelerate the vegetating process \n the young bud 

 In the month of June, when the buds are in a proper 

 state, the operation is performed by employing two 

 distinct ligatures to hold the buds in their places $ 

 one ligature is first placed above the bud inserted,; 



