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ally fruit-buds^, ought to be avoided, unless 

 when the particular object of the operation, 

 (which seldom succeeds,) is to secure a speci- 

 men of fruit the ensuing year, and nothing 

 further. Single ivood-buds are preferable 

 to the triple ones, except in working the 

 Peach, where the latter, in our climate, seem 

 to succeed quite as well as the former. It 

 may assist the inexperienced budder. to in- 

 form him that the blossom-buds are' quite 

 round, whereas the wood-buds -are always 

 long and pointed. Yery feeble wood-buds 

 sometimes have not vigor sufficient to grow 

 into a twig; they, therefore, emit two or three 

 leaves only, the first season, and then die. 



The size of the stock (trunk or limb,) upon 

 which this operation is to be performed, ought 

 to be from one-eighth of an inch to not more 

 than an inch in diameter. There are many 

 modes of budding; we shall give only that 

 which we consider the best. 



With a sharp budding knife, (a pen-knife 

 will answer,) upon a smooth place, on the side 

 of the stock, cut a longitudinal slit, an inch or 

 more long. Across the top of this, cut a trans- 

 verse slit, from a quarter to half an inch long, 

 so that both slits, taken together, shall resem- 



