BUDDING. 



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BUDDING. 



The bud is made fast in its situation 

 by tying it with a strand or ribbon of 

 bast matting. This being done in 

 summer or autumn, the matting re- 

 mains on for a month or six weeks, 

 according to circumstances, till the 

 back of the bud shows, by its healthy 

 appearance, that a vital union has 

 taken place. The matting may now 

 be loosened, and in a week or two 

 altogether removed. By another 

 mode, differing a little from the above, 

 the cut across is made below the slit, 

 as shown in fig. 1, in which d shows 

 the cuts made in the stock, e the bud 

 inserted, and /the bast mat applied. 



FIG. 1. 



COMMON OR SHIELD- BUDDING. 



Niche budding is when the wood is 

 retained in the bud, as shown in fig. 

 2, in which g is the prepared stock ; c 



fig. 2. 



the bud turned to show the wood, and 

 a b the bud applied, which should af- 

 terwards be bound with bast mat, as 

 before. In placing the bud on the 

 stock in niche-budding, the principal 



thing to be attended to is, to bring the 

 horizontal edges of the base of the 

 niche in the stock, and those of the 

 bud, which is to fit into it, into the 

 most perfect contact possible ; be- 

 cause the union is produced, not as in 

 common summer budding, by the 

 junction of the soft wood of the stock 

 with the rudiment of the soft wood on 

 the inside of the bark of the bud, but 

 by the junction of soft wood with soft 

 wood, as in common grafting. This 

 mode of budding will always succeed 

 best, when the niche in the stock is 

 made where there is already a bud, 

 (as shown at g) making the horizontal 

 cut through the base of the bud. 



Figs 3 to 6, show an improved mode 

 budding, which has been lately found 



fig. 3. 



FRENCH BUDDING. 



in France to be remarkably success- 

 ful. The bud is prepared in the usual 



