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transverse cut into the wood a 



little below an eye (Jig. 58. a.), 



which incision is met by a longer 



cut downwards, commencing at a 



short distance above the eye (b). 



care being taken that a portion of 



wood is removed with the bark, (c) 



This bud is inserted into the bark 



of the stock, which is cut like an 



inverted T (d), the horizontal edges 



of this cut in the stock and of the 



bud must be brought into the most 



perfect contact with each other (<?), 



and then bound with waterproof 



bass, without, however, applying 



grafting-clay. (/) Eight days after 



the insertion of the bud, the stock is pruned down to the branch, which 



is immediately above the opposite side, and this branch is stopped by being 



cut down to two or three eyes ; all the side-wood is destroyed, and when 



the bud has pushed its fifth leaf, we compel it to branch by pinching its 



extremity; it will then flower in September of the same year." 



" You may also bud the rose in the spring, without waiting till the bark 

 separates, by placing the bud, with some wood on it, in a niche made in 

 the stock, similar to what would be formed by taking an eye for budding 

 from it in the manner above described, and into which it is fitted exactly 

 with a slight pressure. It is recommended to make the cut for the niche 

 where there is already a bud on the stock; when placed, the bud is then 

 bound with bass and covered with mastic." . 



In budding in June, Dr. Van Mons first deprives the young 

 shoots, from which he proposes to take buds, of their leaves, 

 and fifteen days afterwards he finds the buds sufficiently 

 swelled to allow of their being taken off and inserted. The 

 shoots from such buds frequently flower the same year, but 

 this may be rendered certain by pruning off all the branches 

 of the stock. In budding in August and September, the 

 buds succeed best when inserted in the old wood, well pruning 

 all the branches of the stock, if it is intended that the buds 

 shall push the same season. 



« The scion of a rose-tree is seldom too dry to take, when the bud is 

 inserted with a thin bit of wood behind its eye." Dr. V. M. has budded 

 successfully from scions that had remained in a drawer for ten days. I hey 

 may be sent any where, packed in long grass, and surrounded with straw 

 disposed longitudinally." 



Dr. V. M. prefers grafting or budding not more than six 

 inches above ground, in order that the bush may be better 

 exposed to the eye, because the union is more certain, and 

 because the plant keeps the earth about it moist by its own 

 shadow. In pruning roses of every kind, the shoots are 

 annually shortened to nine inches in length, which is found 



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