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Remarks — The sopliora comes into growth rather slowly, 

 and its bark is so tender that it is not necessary to cut before- 

 hand and preserve the scion-branches intended for grafting. 

 A fine day should be selected for the operation, as soon as the 

 buds begin to swell. The leaf-stalk entirely covers the graft- 

 bud and is inserted with it into the stock. Stocks intended 

 for budding should have young and vigorous stems. Success, 

 however, is so uncertain that in the nurseries of Bollwiller, for 

 example, they bud the same stocks at two or three different 

 times with an interval of about twenty days between each. 



Rowan-tree, or Mountain Ash. 



Stock. — White-thorn (from seed). Mode of Grafting. — 

 Shield-budding (in July) ; cleft-grafting (in March) ; crown- 

 grafting (in April) ; close to the ground. 



Remarks. — Reject the buds which grow at the base of the 

 scion-branches, as they de^elope badly; and also those at the 

 top, as they are not easily worked and are too much disposed 

 to flowering. Do not take the scions from cankered subjects, 

 especially in the case of the service-tree (Pyrus domestica). 

 With large graft-buds the cross-like incision (see p. 142) should 

 be employed. Disbud the white-thorn stock vigorously, as 

 soon as the graft developes itself. The weeping Mountain-Ash 

 is grafted on its type, as a tall standard, either by shield-bud- 

 ding or cleft -grafting or crown- grafting. 



Taxodium. 



Stock. — Taxodium distichum (from seed). Mode of Grafting. 

 — Cleft -grafting (in April); close to the ground or as 

 standards. 



Remarks. — Ordinary cleft-grafting on the headed-down stock 

 will be more likely to succeed if practised under glass. The 

 treatment in other respects will be the same as for the other 



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