218 AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



they are simply tapering bricks of divers fashions and sizes, of 

 which one end is formed as a tablet, upon which the name or 

 number is imprinted while soft, or painted on, and afterward 

 properly glazed and burned hard. Fig. 1()'2 c,d. • 



TIES. 



Strips of the ordinaj-y Russian bass mat, common in om- fur- 

 nitm-e stores, though generally called " garden" mats, or sim- 

 ilar strips of the inner bark of om- own bass-wood-tree, or of 

 the willow, or the leather- wood, Birca, or the paper mulberry, 

 or of well-kept corn- husk, or coai-se yarn, or cheap cotton twine, 

 or candle-wick, or strips of rag, may all be used in various 

 ways as ties, and some of them should be kept at hand for the 

 purpose. But for secm-ing trees when staked, straw bands are 

 used. 



CHAPTER XV. 



Nature of Budding. — Bud Scions. — Stoclis for, and Modes and Times of 

 Budding. — ^Vfter-treatment, &c. 



BUDDING. 



Budding is a process suited, with lew exceptions, to all 

 kinds of trees and shrubs, and should be generally preferred to 

 grafting for its simplicity and ease. 



The knives for this purpose, figured page 211, are the only 

 forms really suita1:ile for expert and rapid work, but the opera- 

 tion may be performed with a common pen or pocket knife. 



Budding and grafting, though appearing somewhat difiicult 

 in description, wdrich is necessarily prolix, are really very sim- 

 ple operations, which any wdiittling tey or smart girl may per- 

 form, and succeed on the very first trial ; and, with the facili- 

 ties for the cheap and rapid transmission of scions or grafts 

 afforded by our present mail rates, the author has pleasm'e in 

 anticipating that many yoimg persons will avail themselves of 

 the instructions here given, and plant and bud or graft choice 

 friuts for coming years. 



As a matter of curiosity, cither grafting or budding may be 



