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necessary to protect the wound with gum, shellac, or any kind of 
covering. “Dormant buds” are often left on the stock, and are 
only forced in the spring, so as to insure a stronger growth. In 
that case the top of the stock is left untouched until the time comes 
to force the bud. 
BuppING THE VINE. 
Budding is not generally resorted to for propagating the vine, 
grafting having hitherto been almost exclusively used for bringing 
together stock and scion. The budding of the vine can, however, 
be performed just as easily as the budding of the apple or the pear, 
and is a most rapid and valuable means of propagation. 
Of the several methods in vogue for this purpose, the one 
known as Salgue’s Green Budding, after the name of its first 
sponsor, is one of the easiest. In order that it should prove success- 
ful, the stock as well as the scion should be carefully chosen. 
The operation is performed in a slightly different way to the 
one already described above. The bud, which is also an eye or 
shield bud, is carefully chosen from the buds at the tender end of 
the shoot of the vine it is intended to propagate. Few desirable 
scion buds are available for the purpose on the young shoot; a little 
experience soon teaches which are those suitable for the purpose. 
They are recognised by the following characteristies.—When a 
green shoot is cut lengthwise the tissues, which are lignified and 
