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ways ; but I shall only notice the most usual, and, as long expe- 

 rience has ascertained, the best^ method : namely, that T budding ^ 

 so called from the form of the two cuts that are made in the bark 

 of the stock to receive the bud (pi. o, Jig. 1) ; or shield budding, 

 as it is sometimes called, from the form of the piece of bark on 

 which the bud is seated (pi. 5, Jig. 2), assuming the shape of a 

 shield when it is prepared to be inserted within the T cut in the 

 stock. The only solid diiference between budding and grafting is 



PLATE 5. 



Fig. I. Fig. 2. Fig. 3. 



this, that whereas, in grafting you insert on the stock a branch 

 already produced, in budding you insert only the hud. I shall 

 proceed, in treating of this matter, in the same way that I did in 

 the preceding article ; namely, as to the season proper for budding ^ 

 the choosing and preparing of the bud, the operation of budding, 

 and the future treatment of the plant budded. 



214. The season for budding is, generally, from the latter end 

 of July to the latter end of August, the criterions being a plump 

 appearance of the bud formed on the spring shoot of the same 

 year, seated in the angle of a leaf ; and a readiness in the bark of 

 the stock to separate from the wood. 



215. In choosing and preparing the bud, fix on one seated at 

 about the middle of a healthy shoot of the Midsummer growth. 

 These are, generally speaking, most inclined to fruitfuhiess. 

 Choose a cloudy day, if you have a choice of days at this season, 

 and, if not, perform your work early in the morning, or in the 

 evening. The time being proper, you sever the branch on which 

 you find buds to your liking. Take this with you to the stock 

 that you are going to bud. Holding the branch in your left-hand, 

 the largest end downward, make a sloping cut from about an inch 



