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D'ALBEET'S PRACTICE— FLUTE-BUDDING. 



b. Flute-budding with Dormant Eyes (Fig. XL VII. d). — TMs is 

 practised exclusively, during the montli of August, with wood produced 

 by the spring sap. The part from which the buds are taken ought to be 

 as thick as possible ; and as soon as it is separated from the parent tree, 

 the leaves are removed, a small part of their stalks being alone 

 preserved ; immediately after which the buds are raised. The operation 

 differs from the preceding in nothing except slitting the bark longi- 

 tudinally, laying the tube open through its whole length, and thus 

 rendering it easy to extract all adherent parts. This done, it is applied 

 to the stock, of which we preserve the top ; the lower part of the stock 

 should be as thick as the tube itself. From the stock we remove a tube 

 of the same dimensions as the other, by which it is immediately 

 replaced, care being taken that the edges everywhere coincide ; it is 

 kept in its place by a ligature, which had better be removed before 

 winter. The stock is not headed down tiU spring, in order that the 

 bud may partake of the general growth. This mode is difficult to 

 perform, and is only used for propagating delicate trees, whose bark 

 wiU not readily run in spring, and when a supply of descending sap is 

 absolutely necessary for success. 



In Geapting no attempt is made to apply the inner surface 

 of the bark of a scion to the outer surface of the 

 wood of the stock ; but the contact is effected by 

 the wood of the two, and their bark only joins at the 

 edges. "Whip-grafting (Fig. XL VIII.) is the com- 

 monest kind ; it is performed by heading down a 

 stock, then paring one side of it bare for the space 

 of an inch or so, and cutting down obliquely at 

 the upper end of the pared part, towards the 

 pith; the scion is bevelled obliquely to a length 

 corresponding with the pared surface of the stock, 

 and an incision is made into it near the upper end 

 of the wound obliquely upwards, so as to form a 

 "tongue," which is forced into the corresponding 

 wound in the stock ; care is then taken that the 

 bark of the scion is exactly adjusted to that of the 

 stock, and the two are bound firmly together. 



Here the mere contact of the two enables the 

 sap flowing upwards through the stock to sustain 

 Fig. xLviii. tjjg life of the scion until the latter can develop its 

 buds J at the same time the cellular system of the parts in 



