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GRAFTAGE. 



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ment Station (Bull. 37, p. 713 ; Sixth Rep., 414) is evidently 

 a modification of this plate-budding; " The method is simply 

 to cut a slice of bark down the stock, leaving 

 it still attached to the stock at the lower end, to 

 help hold the bud. Part of the loose strip is 

 then cut off and the bud fitted over the cut 

 place with the lower end being held firmly by 

 the part of the slip left. A piece of rafifia is 

 then tied around the bud to hold it firmly." 



H-budding (Fig. 98) is a modification of plate- 

 budding. In this method, a flap is formed both 

 above and below, covering the bud from both 

 ends, and allowing of more per- 

 fect fitting of the bark about 

 the bulge of the bud. 



Flute-budding. — An occa- 

 «'* j^",*'f;,/, , sio;'al method of budding is that 



kn(jwn under the general name ijt| !'; |i I / 



of flute-budding. In this method the bud 



is not cox-ered by the bark of the stock, as 



in the other methods here described. Fig. 



99 illustrates it. A portion of bark is re- 



nn)\-ed entirely from the stock, and a similar 



piece is fitted into its place. When the 



wound extends only part way about the 



stem, as in the illustration, the operation is 



fe| sometimes known as veneer-budding. 



m, ^\'hen it extends entirely round the 



W stem it is called ring or annular-budding. Flute-bud- 



1 I ding is usually performed late in the spring. It is best 



P adapted to plants with very thick and heavy bark. 



The bud is tied and afterwards treated in essentially 



the same manner as in shield-budding. A species of 



flute-budding in which a ring of bark is slipped down 



TOO. Chip upon the tip of a shoot, which has been girdled for the 



(xjs). purpose, is called whistle- or tubular-budding. 



99 Flute-buddins: 



