l6 WHEN AND HOW TO BUD OR GRAFT. 



A bandage of Dass bark (from what is known as 

 Russia matting, or made from stripping of our Linden or 

 Bass-wood trees in the spring, and tempered into strips 

 by keeping it in water for a time,) is then wrapped around, 

 commencing at the bottom and passing the bud, returning 

 again and tying just below, covering all but the bud. 

 (see fig. 7.) The pressure should be just sufficient to 

 keep the inserted portion closely to the stock, but not 

 such as to crush or bruise the bark. Woolen yarn, 

 or soft strips of old cotton cloth may be used as substi- 

 tutes for ties in place of the bass bark. 



In about ten days or two weeks after insertion, the 

 strings or bandages will require to be loosened, and at 

 expiration of three weeks removed altogether. 



The ensuing spring, as soon as the buds begin to 

 swell strongly, cut off the stock about six inches above 

 the bud ; and as the shoots of the bud grows, tie it with 

 any soft material to the piece of stock above its insertion, 

 until about mid-summer, or when it has made two feet of 

 growth, when the stock should be cut away above the 

 bud back of it, and leaving a sloping cut downward 

 from the top of the insertion of the bud. 



When you are inserting buds, never put the bases of 

 the stems on which they are, in water. Keep them wrap- 

 ped in a damp cloth, free from the sun's influence. 

 Again, when you cut the shoots or buds for insertion, at 

 once cut away the leaf, otherwise the evaporation will ex- 

 haust and injure its vitality. 



Buds, having the leaf removed, may be kept fresh and 

 full of vitality for a number of days, if placed in a coo) 



