BUDDING AND GRAFTING 



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bud comes with it, the bud appears hollow when viewed from 

 inside and is useless, for it cannot develop. The leaf in whose 

 axil the bud is growing is severed as at x so as to leave about a 

 quarter of an inch of petiole attached to the bark. This done 

 a T-shaped incision (A, Fig. 94) is cut in the stock and the 

 bark gently raised as at B : the prepared bud is then inserted 

 in the slit as at D and the whole firmly tied round with raffia- 

 grass or cotton-wick so as to press the wounded parts together, 

 leaving the bud itself exposed (E, Fig. 94). 



Fig, 94. — Diagram illustrating a common method of ' Budding.' 



The bandage should be removed or released in about three 

 weeks or a month after budding, and after the upper part of the 

 stock has been cut off in autumn no growth except that from 

 the inserted bud should be allowed. 



In budding operations carried out as above, the healing-tissue 

 or callus formed by the cambium of the transplanted bud becomes 

 united with that formed by the cambium of the stock upon 

 which the bud is placed, and as the cambial surfaces brought 



