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force the upper part of the incision too much, for fear of 

 making a circular rent. As the proper development of a tree 

 does not require several grafts, as soon as they have taken, 

 one only should be retained and all the others suppressed, 

 pinching them at first in order to utilise them in a sup- 

 plementary way. However, if it is required to form a fan or 

 a double palmette, two opposite shoots, resulting from the 



Double-buddingj 



insertion of two buds, should be retained. Double budding 

 is applicable to different methods of shield-budding, whether 

 by inoculation or by veneering. Simple or double shield- 

 budding may be used with branches which it is desired to 

 propagate as cuttings, when the stock succeeds better as a 

 cutting than the scion ; or else in the case of a variety which 

 does not do well when branch-grafted, but which succeeds 

 when shield-budded. This is grafting with shield-budded 

 scions. For instance, the varieties of the apricot and peach, 

 which succeed with difficulty when branch-grafted, may be 

 shield-budded in summer on plum scions (as at 0, 0, C> 



