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success which attends it. Budding may be done during 

 a long period of the growing season, upon the, different 

 kinds of trees we have to propagate. Using but a single 

 eye, it is also economical of the scions, which is a matter 

 of some importance, when we desire to multiply a new 

 and scarce variety. 



It has been claimed on behalf of the process of budding, 

 that trees, which have been worked in this method, are 

 more hardy and better able to resist the severity of win- 

 ter than others of the same varieties, which have been 

 grafted in the root or collar, and also that budded trees 

 come sooner into bearing. Their general hardiness will 

 probably not be at all effected by their manner of prop- 

 agation ; except perhaps, where there may happen to be 

 a marked difference in the habit of the stock, such for in- 

 stance as maturity early in the season, which would have 

 a tendency to check the late growth of the scion placed 

 upon it the supplies of sap being diminished, instead of 

 continuing to flow into the graft, as it would do from the 

 roots of the cutting or root-graft of a variety which was 

 inclined to make a late autumnal growth. Practically, how- 

 ever, this does not have much weight, nor can we know, 

 in a lot of seedling stocks, which will be the late feeders, 

 and which will go into an early summer rest. 



Certain varieties of our cultivated fruits are found to 

 have a remark able tendency to make an extended and very 

 thrifty growth, which, continuing late into the autumn, 

 would appear to expose the young trees to a very severe 

 trial upon the access of the first cold weather, and we 

 often find them very seriously injured under such circum- 

 stances ; the bark is frequently split and ruptured for sev- 



