BUDDING. 



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small streams. The soil is often just what is required by 

 cuttings, and the supply of moisture very equal, so that 

 camellias, cape jasmines and many plants rather difficult 

 to strike, take very readily in such a situation. 



Budding is the art of making a bud unite to the 

 stem or branch of another tree independently of its parent. 

 It is a cutting with a single eye inserted in another tree 

 called a stock, instead of in the ground. Budding may 

 take place at any time after the buds of the new wood are 

 sufficiently matured. These must be perfectly developed, 

 which is seldom the case, until the shoot has temporarily 

 ceased to lengthen which is indicated by the perfect for- 

 mation of the terminal bud. If the buds are desired very 

 early their maturity may be hastened by pinching the tops 

 of the shoots. Buds in this climate are inserted at any 

 time when the bark will rise from June to October. Those 

 put in early will make a fine growth before autumn in 

 favorable seasons. A very necessary condition to success- 

 ful budding is that the bark rise freely from the stock and 

 this must be in a thrifty, growing state, as when pushing 

 into new growth a day or two after a fine rain. If the 

 weather is too cold or the soil too dry, the bark will not 

 rise. Such trees as makes their growth mostly early in 

 the season, must be budded before they cease to grow. 

 The young shoots when in a proper state, are cut below 

 the lowest plump bud. If to be budded immediately, all 

 the leaf is cut off, except a very small portion where it 

 joins the stem which with the leaf stem is left for con- 

 venience of inserting, and in order to attract the sap into the 

 buds. If the buds are to be preserved any time, the 

 whole leaf with half of the leaf stem is removed to prevent 

 evaporation. If this is done as soon as they are cut, they 

 may be preserved several days in a tin box, close covered 

 and kept cool, if the buds are wrapped in a cloth slightly 



