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bring on strangulation. If the graft is made with a pushing 

 bud, the budded branches should be cut ten inches from the 

 bud a week afterwards, and cut back to four inches as soon as 

 the young shoots have grown four inches long. Buds and 

 shoots must be vigorously removed from the stem and roots 

 of the stock. Grafting with a pushing bud should be 

 performed early in the season, in order that the shoots of the 

 graft may be sufficiently ripened before winter. It may be 



Dog-briar budded on the stem. 



practised in April and May on the branches of the preceding 

 year with scions which have been preserved in sand on the 

 north side of a wall. The stem also of the stock may be 

 budded early in the season under the branches at the top. As 

 the stem does not increase in diameter so quickly as a branch, 

 the graft should be bandaged very firmly. Here we employ 

 cotton or thick woollen thread. Some kinds, such as the Tea 

 Eoses, Moss Eoses, Bengal Boses, Souvenir de la Malmaison 

 Ernestine de Barante, &c, succeed better when budded in 



