Gardening in Californi 



should be worked on each other, and unless the stock and scion 

 or bud are nearly related (such as varieties of the same species, 

 species of the same genera, genera of the same order), the result 

 will be unsuccessful. 



Budding is an operation by which a bud, together with a 

 portion of the bark, is removed from a plant and inserted be- 

 neath the inner bark of another plant or beneath the bark of the 

 same plant. The best time for budding is when the cambium 

 or sap is flowing freely, allowing the bark to be easily raised 

 from the wood. When the stock and the tree or bush, from 

 which the bud is taken, are in that condition, the operation will 

 be successful and the union of the bud with the stock most readily 

 effected. If the bark adheres firmly to the wood, it shows that 

 the flow of sap has been arrested and in that case budding should 

 not be attempted. 



In operating, take a shoot from the tree or bush (from which 

 buds are to be worked) and immediately cut off the leaves within 

 one inch of the stem; make a transverse incision in the stock, 

 and, from the middle of this, make a longitudinal one. A bud 

 should now be removed from the shoot by taking the shoot in 

 the left hand and entering the knife about one-half inch below 

 the bud, more or less, according to the size of the shoot and of 

 the stock; with a clean, sloping cut pass the knife upward and 

 inward till under the bud, and then slope outward so that the eye 

 or bud may be nearly in the middle of the piece thus detached. 

 In doing this, the knife will necessarily cut off a portion of the 

 wood along with the bud; this should be removed. To do so, 

 turn the surface upward, holding the piece between the fore- 

 finger and thumb of the left hand, enter the point of the 

 knife between the inner bark and upper extremity of the 

 wood, raise the extremity a little, so that it can be laid 

 hold of between the point of the knife and the nail of the thumb, 

 and then by a twitch remove the wood. Be careful to see that, 

 along with the wood, the core of the bud is not also removed. 



