BUDDING OR GRAFTING BY DETACHED BUDS. 



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cut in the stock and of the bud must be brought into the most perfect con- 

 tact with each other (e), and then bound with waterproof bast (/), without, 



however, appljdng grafting- clay. 

 Eight days after the insertion of 

 the bud, the stock is pruned down 

 to the branch above on the opposite 

 side, and this branch is stopped hy 

 being cut down to two or three 

 eyes ; all the side-wood is destroyed 

 as it appears ; and when the bud 

 has pushed its fifth leaf, the shoot 

 it has made is compelled to branch, 

 by pinching off its extremity; it 

 will then flower in September of 

 the same year. The rose may also 

 be budded in spring, without waiting 

 Pig. 238. Shield-budding the rose in spring, till the bark Separates, by placing 

 the bud with some wood on it in a niche made in the stock as at (^r), similar 

 to what would be formed by taking an eye off it, for budding in the manner 

 above described ; the bud is fitted exactly in the niche, with a slight pres- 

 sure, and then tied on as usual. The camellia may also be budded in this 

 manner in spring by taking a bud with the wood in from the scion, and 

 substituting it for a corresponding piece cut out of the stock, as in fig. 239. 



682. Shield-budding without a bud or eye 

 (fig. 240) is used simply to cover a wound 

 or blemish in one tree by a portion of the 

 live bark of another. 



683. Budding with a circular shield., with 

 a portion of wood attached, (fig. 241,) is em- 

 ployed to equah'se the flower-buds over a tree, 

 by removing some from places where there 



Fig. 239. Shield-bud- are too many to other places in which there ^^^^ sMeid- 



ding the camellia in are toO few. With the point of a penknife, grafting with- 



spring. Spring, cut a small cone of bark and wood ''"^ « ^^<^- 



containing a bud, and insert it in an orifice made in the same manner, secur- 

 ing the edges with grafting-wax. 



684. Budding with a shield stamped out by a 

 punch (fig.242) is considered excellent for budding 

 old trees, the thick and rugged bark of which is not 

 suitable for being taken off^ with the budding- 

 knife. With a mallet the punch (fig. 243) is driven 



y through the bark of the scion, and then through 

 that of the stock, and the piece which comes out 

 of the former is inserted in the cavity formed by 

 T7- o.. „ ^ the piece taken out of the latter. „ 



Fig. 241. Bud- -r. jj. -7 T wr. „ . .xFig. 242. Bwrfrfm^r 



ding with a cir- 685. Buddmg With the shield reversed (fig. 244) the aid of a 

 cuiar shield, jg almost the Only manner of budding used in the pvMch. 

 south of Europe, particularly at Genoa and Hieres, to propagate orange- 

 trees, 

 sap. 



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It is said also to be suitable for trees having abundant and gummy 



686. Budding with the eye turned downwards. — By this method the buds 



