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Different Modes of Grafting. 



piece of bark taken off the stock, but provided with two or three 

 good eyes. The tube thus formed is placed upon the stock in 

 the room of the one taken away, and care is taken to make the 

 two edges of bark join below. The part of the stock which 

 projects over the ring of bark is next split into shreds, and 

 brought down over it all round, so as, when secured by grafting- 

 clay, to keep it in its place. This mode of budding is chiefly 

 employed in the south of France for propagating walnuts, 

 chestnuts, figs, mulberries, and other trees with thick bark and 

 abundant pith. 



1 7. Common Flute Budding ; Greffe en Flute ordinaire, 

 (fg. 55.) — The head of the stock is cut off; but, instead of 

 removing a ring of bark, as in the preceding mode, it is cut 



longitudinally into four or five strips, 

 each 2 in. or 3 in. long, and turned 

 down as in the figure, being left still 

 attached to the tree. From a shoot of 

 the tree to be propagated, a tube of 

 bark is taken, furnished with four or 

 five eyes, rather shorter than the strips, 

 though longer than in tube budding. 

 When the tube of the scion is slipped 

 on the stock, the strips of bark are 

 raised over it, and fastened at the top by a ligature. This method 

 of budding is in very general use both in France and Germany. 



18. Flute Budding in Shreds, with the Stock cut obliquely ; 

 Greffe en Flute et en JLaniere. — This is nothing more than the 

 mode above described, with the end of the stock cut obliquely, 

 as shown at a 'vnfg- 55., instead of being left to be afterwards cut 

 into shreds and turned down over the tube of bark, as in tube 

 budding, No. 16., fg. 54. 



II. Herbaceous Grafting. Greffe Herbacee. 



1. Grafting upon feshy or tuberculous Foots ; Greffe sur Fd- 

 cines chranues ou tuberculeuses. (fg. 56.) — It not unfrequently 

 5 q happens that a tubercle of a georgina root is found 



without eyes ; and, when this is the case, notwith- 

 standing all the care of the cultivator, it may 

 remain in the ground one or two years without 

 budding, till at last it rots. This imperfection is 

 easily discovered if the neck of the tuber is look- 

 ed at attentively, for it is always there that the 

 buds are found. In this case, as soon as a seomina 

 bud upon some other tuber has begun to germi- 

 nate, it is picked out with the point of the graft- 

 ing-knife, and is taken away with a small piece of the tubercle 

 adhering to it. On the neck of the barren tubercle a small hole 



