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PRACTICAL POEESTKT. 



This is a much better and more scientific method of re- 

 moving the wood than to pick it out with the point of a 

 knife, or to remove with a goose-quill as sometimes rec- 

 ommended. This concave piece of bark, with the bud 

 attached, will fit the convex surface of the stock very 

 closely, and on large stocks, and with buds from large 

 shoots, taking out the wood is often advisable. 



Another style of budding called the annular, and rep- 

 resented in fig. 8 may be practised in summer on 

 small shoots of the season's growth 

 or in spring, so soon as the bark 

 will peel readily from stock and 

 cion. It consists in taking a ring 

 of bark with bud attached from one 

 tree, and after a similar ring is re- 

 moved from the stock, the former 

 is fitted into its place. This ring 

 of bark may be an inch wide and 

 fitted to stocks from the size shown 

 up to an inch or more in diameter. 

 It is always best to have the ring of 

 bark wide enough to admit of plac- 

 ing ligatures around the stock above 

 and below the bud, in order to hold 

 it in place. When performed in 

 spring, it is best to use waxed strips 

 of cloth, to cover the wound and ex- 

 clude the air, but late in summer and 

 with bark from shoots of the present season, strips of 

 bark such as used for ordinary budding, will answer for 

 ligatures. In this style of budding, the branch from 

 which the ring of bark is taken, should be nearly the 

 same size as that of the stock to which it is affixed." 



In performing these operations an implement called a 

 budding-knife is required, and they are made of various 

 sizes and patterns, and are usually to be obtained at al- 



Fis. 8. 



ABNDLAB BUDDING. 



