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AGRICULTURE 



of a twig, there is used a single bud of the desired variety. This is 

 inserted into the stem of the plant upon which it is to be grown. 

 Budding, also, is more fully described in 

 connection with orchard fruits. 



EXPERIMENTS 



Try to grow some plants from buds. You 

 may not find it easy to grow plants by grafting 

 and budding, but layering and cutting are less 

 difficult. Be sure that you try to reproduce 

 the best varieties. 



1. Raise a strawberry plant and a grapevine 

 by layering. 



2. Raise a white potato and a geranium from 

 cuttings. Do you use a green or a dormant 



A budded tree from which cutting of the geranium ? Why ? 



beencut^ "***"*' *** jus * 3- Bud and g raft some seedling apple trees, 

 using buds and scions from a good variety. 

 Do you use green or dormant cuttings ? Why ? 



4. Why do you remove some leaves from a green cutting and why 

 do you leave some? 



TRANSPLANTING 



Transplanting. It is seldom the case that we wish to leave just 

 where we reared it the plant grown from a bud by layering, cut- 

 ting, grafting, or budding. When it has a root system of its own, 

 we usually transplant it, or take it up and set it in another place. 

 If this be done with care, most plants will live. They develop 

 more roots and flourish better than those that are not trans- 

 planted. If transplanting be carelessly done, plants are very apt; 

 to die. 



