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THE PRACTICAL GARDENER. 



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JULY 



BUDDING. 



Almost all the more valuable kinds of fruit-trees are in- 

 creased in this way, as well as many shrubs and plants. 



This is one of the methods by which the different aj^proved 

 varieties of many kinds of fruit and other trees can, with cer- 

 tainty, be continued and multiplied; for, though their seeds 

 readily grow and become trees, yet from the seeds or kernels 

 of the finest varieties of fruit, not one tree out of a hundred 

 produces any like the original, and but very few that are good : 

 so variable are seedling fruit-trees, and many others ; but the 

 trees or stocks so raised, being budded or grafted with the 

 proper sorts, the buds or grafts produce invariably the same 

 kind of tree, fruit, flowers, &c. 



This mode of propagation is particularly useful for peaches, 

 nectarines, apricots, plums, and cherries ; the three former of 

 which succeed better by budding than grafting, and are usually 

 worked upon plum- stocks raised from seed, and sometimes by 

 suckers, layers, and cuttings. They are also often budded 

 upon their own stocks, or such as have been raisjd from the 

 kernels of these kinds of fruit ; but they are commonly more 

 strong and durable when budded upon plum-stocks. 



There are also other sorts, as plums and cherries, which 

 are often propagated by budding as well as grafting : the 

 cherry is, however, generally the most prosperous by the lat- 

 ter method, as being more apt to gum and go off by budding 

 These sorts, being of the same genus, grow well upon stocks 

 of each other, but best upon their own stocks. 



Apples and pears are, likewise, capable of being propagated 

 by budding as well as by grafting ; though, as t'ley grow freely 

 by grafting, which is the most easy and expe itious n:ode, 

 they are commonly propagated in that way. 



In short, most kinds of fruit-trees, and others, propagated 

 by grafting, also succeed by budding. Grafting is, however, 

 more adapted to some sorts, and budding to others. 



