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from a twig on a tree to be multiplied, and transferred 

 to the stock, and made to fit as shown. If the. ring is 

 too large, a slice may be cut off ; and if too small, a 

 piece of the bark of the stock may be left to fill the 

 space." Both stock and parent tree must be in about 

 the same condition or stage of growth when this ring 

 bndding is done, in order that the bark containing the 

 bud may peel off freely from the wood, and this is always 

 in the spring, soon after the buds 

 begin to unfold and the sap is in 

 motion. Loudon says that in Dau- 

 phine, France, young plants in tiie 

 nurseries are budded chiefly by this 

 mode, which succeeds best the closer 

 the operation is performed to the col- 

 lar of the plant ; and the same is 

 true in grafting, the nearer the root 

 the better, as has been found by ex- 

 perience with hickories. 



Charles Baltet, in his "L'Art de 

 Greffer," recommends grafting in the 

 usual mode of crown grafting, also 

 flute or ring grafting, in April or 

 May, and ordinary cleft grafting close 

 to the root and at the forks of the 

 branches, etc. He says that the cion 

 should be cut, as much as possible, 

 obliquely across the pith, so that it may be exposed on 

 one side only. He also advises using cions whose base 

 consists of wood of two years' growth, and these fur- 

 nished with a terminal bud. He cautions propagators 

 against grafting earlygrowing kinds upon those of later 

 vegetation. If walnuts of any of the native or foreign 

 species have been successfully propagated by budding or 

 grafting, at any of the nurseries in our Eastern States, it 

 has not been made known in the nurserymen's catalogues. 



FIG. 76. 

 FLXTTE BUDDING. 



