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11. To ensure success in budding the 

 work must be done when the stock is in such a 

 condition that the bark can be easily raised, 

 this occurring when the cambium is in a state 

 of active growth. Skill is also necessary in 

 selecting good bud-wood from which to cut 

 the buds. The pupils should make trials in 

 budding on young limes or oranges which 

 they have raised from seed, using selected 

 oranges or other citrus fruits as the source of 

 the buds. Roses, crotons, hibiscus and other 

 garden shrubs may also be employed. The 

 work should be practised regularly until each 

 pupil can work rapidly, neatly, and with a 

 small percentage of failures. This branch of 

 work should not be dismissed in a lesson or 

 two, but real practical skill should be acquired 

 by repeated exercise. 



12. The wild and cultivated kinds of 

 egg-plants, previously alluded to in connection 

 with grafting (p 58) afford excellent material 

 also for lessons in budding. The buds are 

 prepared and inserted in the usual way, but 

 need not be protected with budding tape, a 

 piece of leaf tied over the budded region 

 being quite sufficient. 



For other information find for figures illustrating llni various 

 methods of budding and grafiing see NICHOLLS' Tropical 

 Agriculture, p, P'2. 



