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BUDDING OR GRAFTING BY DETACHED BUDS. 



Fig. 244, Budding 

 ivith the shield 

 reversed. 



Fig. 245. Budding 

 ivith a pointed 

 sliieldfor resin- 

 ous trees. 



Fig. 243. 



Pu nch used for 

 •punching out 

 shield-buds. 



are forced to grow in a direction opposite to that which they would have 

 taken naturally ; but they soon resume their usual position ; and the desired 

 end, viz., that of increasing the 

 size of the fruit by stagnating 

 the returning sap, is thus by 

 no means attained. De Can- 

 doUe says, that this mode of 

 budding is used advantageously 

 in the case of the olive, and of 

 trees which produce a great 

 deal of gum ; but that he sees jj! 

 no reason for its superiority | 

 over the ordinary mode. — 

 {Phys. Veg. vol. ii. p. 800.) 



687. Shield-budding for re- 

 sinous trees (fig. 245) is said to 



succeed with the y^bietineae, and with all trees that have a 

 gummy and very abundant sap. 



688. Budding with the shield covered (fig. 246). — The shield 

 l^eing inserted in the usual manner, another with an orifice in it, to admit 



the bud of the first, is laid over it, 

 and is bandaged in the usual man- 

 ner, or covered with grafting-wax. 

 The object of the double shield is to 

 lessen the effect of drying winds. 



689. Budding with a square shield 

 j'-jJjj ^ii^ (fig. 247) is an old practice which 

 I I has lately been revived with some 

 ¥• — 2 6 Bud ii^o^^ifications {Gard. Mag. for 1839, 



\ng^ Icith'aV' 165), in which the bark, T^oiQQdi'PiE- ^^1 ■ Budding loith a square 



double shield, up on the stock to make room for * 

 the shield, is tied over it ; the shield being previously shortened, so as to 

 reach only to the under side of the bud ; and between the two barks, the 



^ petiole of a leaf is 



inserted, the disk of 

 which is intended 

 to protect the bud 

 from the sun. The 

 strip of bark being 

 peeled down from 

 the stock, instead 

 of being raised up 

 from it by the spa- 

 tula of the bud- 

 ding-knife, is found 



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Fig. 248. Budding with a terminal eye. 



to lessen the risk of injuring the soft wood ; and this appears to be the chief 

 recommendation of this mode of budding. 



6 90. Shield-budding with a terminal bud (fig. 248) is supposed to produce 

 a more vigorous shoot than when a lateral eye is used ; and it is, therefore, 

 recommended for supplymg a leader to a shoot that has lost one. The stock 

 is cut as at ff, and the bud is prepared as at &, inserted as at c, and tied in the 

 usual manner, as at d. 



