INOCULATION, OR BUDDING. 



Budding with double ligatures is a mode invented by 

 Knight, and described by him {Hort, Trans, vol. i. p. 194) 

 as 'a new and expeditious mode of budding.' The opera- 

 tions are performed in the manner first above described; 

 but, instead of one ligature, two are applied, one above the 

 bud inserted on the transverse section through the bark ; 

 the other, which had no further office than that of securing 

 the bud, was applied below in the usual way. As soon as 

 the buds had attached themselves, the lower ligature was 

 taken off, but the others were suffered to remain. ' The 

 passage of the sap upwards w^as, in consequence, much ob- 

 structed, and the inserted buds began to vegetate strongly 

 in July, (being inserted in June;) and when these had^l 

 afforded shoots about four inches long, the remaining liga- 

 tures were taken off to permit the excess of sap to pass on, 

 and the young shoots were nailed to the wall. Being there 

 properly exposed to the light, their young w^ood ripened mi 

 well, and afforded blossoms in the succeeding spring; and ^' 

 these would,' he adds, 'no doubt have afforded fruit; but 

 that, leaving my residence, I removed my trees,' &c. 



" Future treatment. — In a fortnight, at furthest, after bud- 

 ding, such as have adhered may be known by their fresh f^j 

 appearance at the eye ; and in three vreeks, all those which 

 have succeeded will be firmly united with the stock, and^ 

 the parts being somewhat swelled in most species, the 

 bandage must be loosened, and, a week or two afterwards,, j 

 finally removed. The shield and bud now swell in com- 

 mon with the other parts of the stock ; and nothing more 

 requires to be done till spring, when, just before the rising 

 of the sap, they are to be headed down close to the bud^ 

 by an oblique cut, terminating about an eighth or a quarter 

 of an inch above the shield. In some cases, however, as 

 in grafting, a few inches of the stalk is left for the first sea- 

 son, and the young shoot tied to it for protection from the 

 winds." — Encyc. of Gardening. 



Mr. Abner Landrum mentions a mode of treating the 

 stock, and recently inserted bud, somewhat different from 

 that of Mr. Knight, as detailed above. Instead of Mr. 

 Knight's method of using a strong ligature above the 

 inserted bud, he adopts the following :— As soon as it can be 

 ascertained that the bud will live, which, he says, may be 

 in about a week, if the stock be small, let it be instantly 

 headed down, just above the bud to be nourished. If the 

 slock be large, amputate the principal branches ; and the 

 conseqiience will be^ an Immediate bursting of all the latent ' 



