300 



BUDDING OR GRAFTING BY DETACHED BUDS. 



and 235, or in a pot of moist earth. The vessel of water must be removed 



from time to time, 

 and the base of the 

 submerged scion 

 renewed by paring 

 a slice off its extre- 

 mity, and repla- 

 cing it again in the 

 water. If the stock 

 be headed down, a 

 bud must be left in 

 it at its upper ex- 

 tremity, in order 

 to attract the sap 

 to the graft. The 

 finer sorts of ca- 

 mellias are some- 

 times grafted in Fig. 234. inarching with 

 this manner, as in- « *ciort nourished by its 



Fig. 233. A large stock and a small 

 scion united by inarching. 



dicated in fig. 23,5. tZ^T^lJT^f 



In some cases, when it is desired to prevent evapora- water. 

 tion, instead of claying or mossing, the graft is covered with a piece of paper 

 tied on below and above the parts operated on, so as com- 

 pletely to enclose them. Some persons, instead of a vessel 

 of water, insert the lower part of the scion into a pot of soil 

 kept moist, or into a potato or a turnip. 



A great many different kinds of inarching have been 

 described by M. Thouin, which, if not useful, are at least 

 curious: such, for example, as uniting a number of diflPerent 

 stems of different species of the same genus, and afterwards 

 allowing only one shoot to expend all. the sap drawn up by 

 the different stocks ; the object being to ascertain whether 

 the different saps supplied would make any difference in 

 that of the scion, which, however, was found not to be the 

 case. Another mode that used to be practised in Continental 

 nurseries, and sometimes formerly in England, was to raise 

 a plant in a pot, on a platform, between two trees of allied 

 species, as of a thorn between two pear trees, and, after 

 iaarching a branch of each tree into the thorn, when the 

 union was complete, to remove the scaffolding, shake the 

 roots of the thorn out of the flower-pot, and leave the plant 

 suspended with its roots in the air. 



3Pig.235. The camel- § IX. — Budding or Grafting hy Detached Buds. 



aVclon^partZul Budding consists in transfening a portion of bark 



nourished by a Containing one or more buds, and forming the scion, to 

 phial of water. ^^^^ wood of another plant forming the stock, a portion 

 of the bark of the stock being raised up or taken off to receive 

 the scion. The buds of trees are originated in the young shoots 

 in the axils of the leaves ; and when the bud begins to grow, its 

 connexion with the medullary sheath ceases ; or, at all events, the bud 

 if detached and properly placed on the alburnum of another plant, will 



