BUDDING. 



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BULBS. 



shoot is chosen on the tree which is 

 to be propagated, as thick as, or 

 thicker than, the stock in which the 

 bud is to be inserted. A ring of bark 

 including a bud is then cut off from 

 the branch of the shrub which it is 

 to be propagated, and detached by 

 splitting it longitudinally on one side. 

 A similar ring of bark is then de- 

 tached from the stock, and the former 

 inserted in its place, and tied on with 

 matting. This mode of budding is 

 found particularly suitable for all trees 

 or shrubs having thick bark. There 

 are many other kinds of budding, but 

 these are in the most general use. 



It sometimes happens in the case of 

 roses, that the bud will produce a 

 shoot the same season in which it has 

 been inserted ; but it more frequently 

 remains dormant till the following 

 spring. At this period the stock 

 should be cut over a few inches above 

 the bud ; and the shoot, as it grows, 

 should be slightly tied to the portion 

 of stock left on above the bud, in 

 order to prevent it from being injured 

 by high winds. The second year this 

 portion of the stock may be cut off 

 close to the bud. 



Buds may be inserted in stocks at 

 a few inches from the ground, in 

 which case, the plants produced are 

 called dwarfs ; or in straight stems at 

 four, five, or six feet from the 

 ground, in which case the plants pro- 

 duced are called standards. The 

 latter is the most common mode of 

 budding roses and orange trees : but 

 other shrubs and trees of rare or or- 

 namental kinds are commonly budded 

 within a foot, or a few inches from 

 the ground. Sometimes buds of se- 

 veral kinds are inserted in the same 

 stock ; and sometimes buds are in- 

 serted in branches in different parts of 

 a tree, for the sake either of supplying 

 vacant places in the branches, or of 

 producing several kinds on the same 

 tree. Thus on climbing British roses, 



several varieties of Chinese roses may 

 be budded ; and on the single red ca- 

 mellia, several varieties of double red 

 or white camellias. 



In all cases of budding, it is essen- 

 tial that the stock shall not be Very 

 different from the bud to be inserted 

 in it. In some cases it is even neces- 

 sary that the bud and the stock should 

 be of the same species ; while on the 

 other hand it sometimes happens that 

 a bud may be inserted successfully in 

 any stock which is of the same natu- 

 ral order. Thus the lilac, the olive, 

 and the fringe-tree, may be budded 

 on the common ash ; all the lour 

 species being of the same natural or- 

 der, Oleacece. Roses and thorns are 

 the plants to which budding is most 

 commonly applied by amateurs ; and 

 the finer kinds of the former genus are 

 generally budded on wild briars of the 

 dog-rose, and of the latter (Cratae- 

 gus), on the common hawthorn. 



Bu'ddlea. — Scrophularince. — De- 

 ciduous or evergreen shrubs, natives 

 of India or South America, of which 

 one species, B. globbsa, is worth 

 culture in the shrubbery. It has fine 

 golden yellow, ball-like flowers, grow- 

 ing in any common soil, and is tole- 

 rably hardy, though it is sometimes 

 killed by very severe frost. It is 

 readily increased by cuttings under a 

 hand-glass. 



Bulbs are plants which belong to a 

 particular division of vegetables, hav- 

 ing certain peculiarities which require 

 a particular mode of culture. They 

 are all, with scarcely a single excep- 

 tion, very ornamental from the very 

 large size of their flowers in propor- 

 tion to the entire plants, and from the 

 brilliancy of their colours. Their 

 principal peculiarity is, that they pro- 

 duce but a limited number of leaves 

 every season ; and hence, if these 

 leaves are cut off or injured, no new 

 leaves are produced that season. In 

 all other herbaceous plants, when 



