GRAFTING 199 



is called an active bud or a dormant bud. In the 

 first case the grafting is done in the spring, when 

 nature is awaking from her winter's sleep, so that 

 the eye or bud implanted in the stock coalesces with 

 it and very soon develops into a young shoot. In 

 the second instance the bud is set in place some 



, Budding 



time in July- or August, at the period of the au- 

 tumnal sap, so that it lies dormant or, in other words, 

 remains stationary during the following autumn and 

 winter, after uniting with the stock. 



"The implement here required is the grafting- 

 knife, furnished at one end with a very sharp blade, 

 arid at the other with a short spatula of bone or very 

 hard wood. The first thing to do is to remove the 

 bud to be transplanted. On a branch in which the 

 sap is working we make with the grafting-knife a 



