withlbhe tape, or shreds, beginning a little below the cut and pro- 

 ceeding upwards, drawing it closely round to the top of the slit, 

 but carefully observing that the eye of the bud is not included 

 or pressed upon. When you have thus surrounded the whole, 

 bring the end through a slide of the fastening and leave it : thus 

 the operation is done, A piece of plantain leaf tied about four 

 inches above the bud, so as to drop over it, will shade it from the 

 sun and promote its growth. In the course of a fortnight, you 

 will be enabled to judge if it has taken, by its full and green ap- 

 pearance : if otherwise, it looks black and shrivelled. When the 

 shoot is six or eight fingers long you may then cut off the heads 

 of the stocks, leaving about two inches above the insertion of the 

 bud. 



Shield budding or T budding differs from the preceding merely 

 in the form of the incision. 



Observe, as soon as 

 your buds have shot 

 out strong, that you 

 loosen the bandages 

 below, suffering the 

 upper to remain a short 

 time longer ; hemp or 

 string should on no 

 account be used, as 

 they cut through the 

 rind and injure the 

 growth of the shoot. 



In Niche budding the 

 incision is made in the 

 form of an inverted U, 

 this mode is applicable 

 to rose bushes. 



A bud of sweet brier 

 grafted on the stock of 



a Rose Edwards threw out a shoot full three inches long in the 

 course of twenty days after the bud was first tied on, in the 

 month of February, at Hyderabad, in the Deccan. 



