126 GARDEN ENEMIES. 



as any shoot of the parent tree. When it is evi- 

 dent, on the return of spring, that the strange bud 

 has become naturalised, and is ready to commence 

 its growth, it should be encouraged, or directed ac- 

 cording to the design which you wish it to fulfil. 

 If your object is to have a diversity of fruit on the 

 same tree, and to produce from the bud one or more 

 branches, make a notch above the place of its in- 

 sertion, in order to impede the course of the sap, 

 and direct it into the channel of the bud: but if 

 you would have the whole tree to possess only the 

 quality of that part which you have inserted, cut 

 off all above the bud, and if any young shoots ap- 

 pear beneath it, let them be rubbed off with the 

 finger befere they gain strength or diminish the 

 resources of the wood which you wish to cherish. 

 Care must be early taken, whether the tree be a 

 standard or placed on a wall, to guide on their pro- 

 per path, or to guard from the violence of winds, 

 the young shoots proceeding from the bud. 



Remedies for canker, mildew, green-fly, etc., may 

 be reserved for a separate section, containing a 

 general census of the garden enemies, and the mode 

 of dealing with each. You are supposed to have 

 done your work in the department of fruit trees; 

 and it may be as well to leave your enemies for a 

 time to do theirs, till you find out, by their works, 

 who and what they are, and so learn how to hinder 

 their operations not expecting to get rid of the 

 agents. For it is remarkable that man, once hav- 

 ing dominion over all the creatures, is now so weak 



