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material for healing the wounds the operation entails. It is 

 performed by removing from a shoot of the current season's growth 

 a suitable bud and inserting it in the proper manner under the 

 bark of another tree, sufficiently closely related to insure the 

 absorption by the bud of the nourishing fluid of the host plant. 

 When a tree is lop-sided, a symmetrical head may at times be 

 provided by inserting under the bark of the tree a bud removed 

 from one of its own branches in such a position that the resulting 

 growth will fill the unsightly gap. 



Buds inserted early in the season are called " spring buds," 

 and become active at once, showing towards the end of summer 

 marked growth ; whereas buds put in late in the summer or in the 

 autumn are called "dormant buds," and remain inactive all 

 through the winter and until next spring. 



Such questions as: "Influence of stock and scion" and 

 " choice of stock " will be discussed in the chapter on grafting. 



(A) The point which should not be used, as the buds are generally 

 blind, (B) Point from where the buds are developed, (c) Beyond this 

 point the buds are too tender, and should not be used. (D) Indicates 

 the scion, or budding stick, to be used, being between points B and c. 

 (E) The scion, or budding stick, trimmed ready for budding. 



