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room and wrapped in damp moss or cloths. If they are 

 to be mailed they should have damp moss wrapped around 

 them, and then be enveloped in oiled silk or linen. 



Ring Budding is another style, adapted to hard wood 

 wood trees, as the chestnut, magnolia, etc. It is questjpn- 

 able whether this is as good as side grafting, for which see 

 heading. In performing this a ring of bark is taken 

 from a limb or stock, and one of corresponding size, con- 

 taining a bud, is put in its place, (see fig. 8.) Trees 



FIG. 8. 



that have been girdled by mice or rabbits during winter, 

 may be festored by the process of simply putting in live 

 bark from a tree of its kind. Another way is to insert a 

 number of grafts early in spring, each cut with a sloping 

 cut on the inside at both ends, meeting with the albumen 

 or sap rising formation in the large limb or stock. 



In either of these practices, the whole should be cover- 

 ed with grafting wax, either applied with a brush or having 

 been spread upon cloth, and then wrapped over the whole. 

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