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apple-trees, peach-trees, or lilacs. Tall standards are not 

 so quickly budded as low ones, although in the case of the 

 latter, both grafter and bandager have often to stoop con- 

 siderably at their work. First-class grafters in our establish- 

 ment have reached the number of 250 bud-grafts per hour, 

 (and even 300 with the Doucin apple stock planted at intervals 

 of a foot) ; but a performance like this is quite unusual, and 

 "we may add, hazardous to the ultimate success of the grafts ; 



Budding with a Cross-shaped Incision. (Chestnut.) 

 we do not therefore recommend it. It is better to proceed more 

 slowly and to act with precaution. We may also observe that 

 our nurserymen do not entrust the office of grafter to any but 

 steady workmen, who have served a regular apprenticeship as 

 bandagers, and who are sufficiently experienced in the work 

 of grafting. 



Budding with a Cross-shaped Incision. 

 If the buds on the scion shoot should be rather large for 



