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striking cuttings that arc more difficult than others, resource 

 should be had to the bark bed. Experience will teach 

 more on that subject than I could explain in any treatise - 



Budding. The difference between budding and striking 

 by cuttings in one respect amounts to one thing the increase 

 of desirable plants ; the one conveys the roots to the ground, 

 while the other is essentially employed in engrafting itself 

 by uniting to the stem of another, and all action of atmos- 

 pheric air must be excluded to ensure success j to accom- 

 plish this, it will be necessary to examine the bark when it 

 parts freely, which is about July or August, which is the 

 time to perform the operation. 



The best stock to bud the Rose on is the Boursalt ; when 

 ready to perform the operation, cut the bark across and 

 down in the shape of T, with a budding knife, then lay it 

 open from the cross down, separating the bark from the 

 wood with as much ease as possible ; then take the bud in- 

 tended to be inserted which must be cut about a quarter of 

 an inch above and beiow the axle of the leaf through a por- 

 tion of the wood, which must be separated from the bark, 

 and inserted in the part separated, commencing at the cross 

 and slipped down as far as possible, between the bark, with- 

 out injuring the leaf bud, then take a piece of bass matting 

 about a quarter of an inch wide, previously dipped into wa- 

 ter to strengthen it, and bind the wound close, leaving the 

 eye only exposed, and in six weeks, if the bud has taken, 

 slacken the bandage a little and cut the stalk off within two 

 eyes of the bud ; by this means the inserted bud will receive 

 enough sap to keep it in a living condition until spring. 

 When the bwd begins to push, cut off the balance above 



