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only half the rays of the sun shall reach them. {Gard, 

 Chron,) 



Budding is a mode of propagation rarely adopted 

 for the apple, for, although the operation may be 

 performed upon stocks much smaller than those re- 

 quired for grafting, yet a greater time elapses afterwards 

 before they come into bearing than in the case of 

 grafted specimens. One advantage of budding is, 

 that as three or four buds may be inserted round the 

 same branch, a good head to the tree is sooner se- 

 cured. July is the best month for budding this 

 fruit. 



Cuttings. — We believe that almost all, if not all, 

 varieties of the apple may be propagated thus. There 

 is no difficulty in making cuttings of the Burr-knot, 

 Codlin, and Jenetting varieties, strike root ; and we 

 have made those of many other varieties similarly 

 strike by merely taking care that at the bottom of 

 the annual shoot employed there should be a portion 

 of the old wood allowed to remain. Let the cuttings 

 be six or eight inches long ; cut off the extreme 

 point, and allow no more than two buds at the part 

 above the soil to remain, cutting away all the buds 

 covered by it. Let the soil be very light, press the 

 soil about the cutting, four inches of which should be 

 buried by the earth ; water moderately, and cover 

 with a hand-glass. If planted in a pot, and plunged 

 in a very gentle hotbed, the rooting takes place faster 



