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59 A) is also practised by gardeners. A small piece of rcot 

 is either grafted on to a scion of the desired variety or the 

 scion is grafted on to the root-stock just below the ground 

 where the stock is. 



778. Bark-grafting. The bark taken from scion may 

 have one or several buds on it. When one bud only is used, 

 the operation is called budding] when several buds are used 

 the operation is called bark-grafting^ or multiple- budding. 

 Either old or new bark answers, but old bark does better. 

 The length of bark taken should be twice that of the breadth 

 (circumference in the case of bark-grafting). There should 

 be no "wood adhering to the bark. Having secured the 

 bark from the scion tree, cut out a corresponding portion of 

 bark from a branch of the same thickness on the stock and 

 make the scion bark take the position of the bark thus cut 

 out, then bind it with cotton, but not tightly. No clay or 

 grafting wax need be used. Six or eight inches above this 

 graft the stem should be ring-barked, but leaves above the 

 ring-bark left for shade for 2 or 3 weeks, after which the 

 branches above the ring-barking should be cut or sawn off 

 and all shoots appearing, except those on the bark grafted 

 on, should be rubbed out, that all the ascending sap may go to 

 the nourishment of the buds on the bark. 



779. Budding proper is a simple but delicate oper- 

 ation. It consists of removing a bud (Fig. 60) from one 

 plant and making it grow on another which must be of the 

 same family and closely related, although it may yield fruit 

 or flowers of an inferior character. It is possible to bud an 

 orange on a lime tree and a peach on an English plum tree, 

 but not a rose on an orange. But very curious combin- 

 ations are being now achieved by budding. A single 

 bud is carefully removed from the tree to be propagated 

 by inserting the budding knife about half-an-inch above 

 the bud, iand cutting slightly inwards and downwards, 

 bringing the knife ouj; a)3out i" tjelow the bud. If there 



