FRUITS. CHAP. 



bark on which the bud is seated (pi. 5. fig. 2.) assuming 



the shape of a shield when it is prepared to be inserted 



within the T cut in the stock. The only solid difference 



PLATE. 5. 



FIG. 1. FIG. 2. FIG. 3. 



between budding and grafting is this, that, whereas, in 

 grafting, you insert on the stock a branch already produced, 

 in budding, you insert only the bud. I shall proceed, in 

 treating of this matter, in the same way that I did in the 

 preceding article ; namely, as to the season proper for 

 budding, the choosing and preparing of the bud, the operation 

 of budding, and the future treatment of the plant budded. 



213. The season for budding is, generally, from the 

 latter end of July to the latter end of August, the cri- 

 terions being a plump appearance of the bud formed on 

 the spring shoot of the same year, seated in the angle 

 of a leafj and, a readiness in the bark of the stock 

 to separate from the wood. 



214. In chusing and preparing the bud, fix on one 

 seated at about the middle of a healthy shoot of the Mid- 

 summer growth. These are, generally speaking, most 



