96 CORDON TRAINING. 



lightly the boundaries of the proposed excisions 

 and incisions, which are to be 1 J inches in length, 

 both on the shoot and on the leader : the succeed- 

 ing process resembles budding roses. For a cut 

 If inches long being made lengthwise through 

 the bark of the leader, two more transverse cuts 

 are next made through the bark, one at either 

 end of the first cut. Take care not to cut too 

 deeply, and do not lacerate any part, or the place 

 where the descending fibres of the new roots are to 

 be will be ruined. Carefully then lift up the bark 

 and make it thus ready, as in budding roses, to re- 

 ceive the new shoot under the bark. This shoot, 

 having been marked where it is to meet the 

 opened bark, must be now operated on. A slice 

 is to be scooped out of it, cleanly and neatly, 

 If inches long, and the shoot must then be 

 neatly slipped into the orifice, and under the 

 bark of the leader. 



I must not omit here to state that a bud must 

 have been managed to be left in the side of this 

 shoot, which is just opposite to the sliced-out 

 part, so that when it has been slipped into its 

 place under the bark, this bud shall appear pro- 

 truding, exactly as in budding roses. Proceed 

 then with white worsted to bind carefully round 

 all the parts operated on, leaving out the bud, and 

 bind the shoot into the leader. By this means 

 you will exclude all the air. If neatly done it 

 will surely succeed. All which I did last year 



