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ter T, fig. 3. A bnd is then taken from a 

 shoot of the present year's growth, by- 

 shaving off the bark an inch or an inch 

 and a half in length, with a small part of 

 the wood directly beneath the bud, fig. 4. 

 The edges of the bark, at the incision in 

 the stock, are then raised a little, fig. 5, 

 and the bud pushed downward under the 

 bark, fig. 6. A bandage of bass-bark. 

 Fig. 8. Fig. 6. Fig. 4. Fig. 6. Fig. 7. ■^oolen yam, or other substance, is then 

 wrapped around, commencing at the bottom and passing the bud, re- 

 turning again and tying just below, covering all but the bud, fig. V. 

 The pressure should be just sufficient to keep the inserted portion close- 

 ly to the stock, but not such as to bruise or crush the bark. In about 

 ten days or two weeks after insertion, the strings will require to be 

 loosened, and at the expii-ation of three weeks removed altogether. The 

 ensuing spring, as soon as the buds begin to swell strongly, cut off the 

 stock about six inches above the bud ; and as the shoot or bud grows, 

 tie it to the piece of stock above its insertion until about midsummer, 

 when it will be time to cut away the piece of stock above the bud, 

 leaving a sloping cut downward from the top of insertion of bud.* 



The leaf should be cut off to within half an inch of the bud, as other- 

 wise the evaporation would destroy its vitality. From July to the mid- 

 dle of September is the season for budding, choosing always cloudy 

 weather, and the time when the bark freely cleaves from the wood. 



H00T8 OF A TREE ENTIEE. 



Transplanting. — Trees should be taken up with the roots as perfect as 

 possible, bearing in mind that the roots of a tree extend every way as 

 far as the branches ; and in proportion as the roots have been shortened 

 in taking up, in the same proportion should the branches be shortened in 

 setting out. The soil in which the trees arc to stand should be deeply 

 subsoiled, two feet at least, or pits six feet across should be opened to 

 that depth, the surface soil returned to the bottom, and the subsoil 



* Elliott's "Fruit Grower's Guide." * 



