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trees and shrubs, including the rose, and there 

 are some fruits that can scarcely be multiplied 

 in any olher way. It consists in removing a 

 bud with a portion of the bark from a tree, and 

 inserting it in a slit of the bark of another tree. 

 The season for performing this operation is in 

 July or August, when the buds destined for the 

 following year are completely formed in the axils 

 of the leaves, and when the portion of bark parts 

 freely from the wood beneath ; the buds to be 

 preferred being those on the middle of the shoot. 

 There are many forms of budding ; but that 

 which is the simplest and most easily performed 

 need alone to be described. The operator should 

 be provided with a budding-knife in which the 

 cutting edge of the blade is rounded off at the 

 point, and having a thin ivory or bone handle, 

 like a paper folder, for raising the bark of the 

 stock. A horizontal or transverse incision is 

 made in the bark, quite down to the wood, and 

 from this incision a perpendicular slit is drawn 

 downwards to the extent of perhaps an inch. 

 The slit has now the resemblance of the letter 

 T, see F ; a bud is then cut from the tree that 

 is wished to be propagated, having a portion of 

 the wood attached to it, so that the whole may 

 be an inch and a half long as at G. The bit 

 of wood is then gently withdrawn, care being 

 taken that the bud adhere wholly to the bark or 

 shield^ as it is called, as at H, which is the re- 

 verse of G. The bark on each side of the per- 

 pendicular slit being cautiously opened with the 

 handle of the knife, the butt and shield are in- 

 serted, as at I ; the upper tip of the shield being 

 cut off horizontally, and brought neally to fit 

 the bark of the stock at the transverse incision. 

 Slight ties of moistened bass matting or candle- 

 wick are then applied, and in about a month or 

 six weeks these ligatures may be taken away, 

 when, if the operation has been successful, the 

 bud will be fresh and full, and the shield firmly 

 united to the wood ; the next spring a strong 

 shoot is thrown out from this bud, and to this 

 the stock is headed down in the course of the 

 summer." 



EXTENSIVE SALE OF IMPROVED SHORT 

 HORNS. 



We see by a notice in the Cultivator, that 

 Mr. E. P. Prentice designs selling, on the 25th 

 of June next, his herd of Durham cattle. Mr. 

 Prentice, whose word is a sufficient guarantee 

 to those who know him, pledges himself, that 

 with two or three exceptions, this sale will be 

 made without reserve ; and we doubt not great 

 sacrifices will be made. To those who admire 

 and desire the choicest of Durhams, no better 

 opportunity of supplying themselves could pos- 

 sibly be afforded. 



This sale will take place at Mount Hope, 

 within one mile of the city of Albany, and Mr. 

 Howard, of the Cultivator, offers to take charge 

 of any orders for purchasers that may be sent 

 him ; but we would advise all those who can 

 spare the time to attend the sale in person. — 

 Mount Hope itself is worth a visit, the pleasure 

 of Mr. Prentice's acquaintance is worth another, 

 and a sight of his stock is worth a third. 



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