BUDDING OR GRAFTING BY DETACHED BUDS. 



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691. Flute-budding^ or tube-budding. — There are several modifications of 

 this mode of budding, which is a good deal used on the Continent for trees 

 which are difficult to take, such as the walnut and the 

 chestnut ; and for several oaks, as well as for the white 

 mulberry. It is generally performed in spring ; but it 

 will also succeed in autumn. The shoot from which the 

 buds ai-e to be taken, and that on which they are to be 

 placed, must be of the same diameter, or nearly so ; and 

 a ring being removed from each, that from the stock is 

 throA\Ti away, and the one from the scion put on in its 

 stead. Sometimes this is done without shortening the 

 stock or branch, when it is called annular, or ring-bud- 

 ding ; and sometimes the stock is shortened, and the ring 

 put on its upper extremity, when it is called flute-bud- 

 ding, or terminal tube-budding. 



692. Flute-budding in spring. — The scions are taken 

 off in autumn, or early in winter, and preserved through 

 the winter in a cool shady situation, in the same manner 

 as is done in grafting by detached scions, and in spring 

 shield-budding. Fig. 249, which requires no description, 

 shows the mode of spring terminal flute-budding the 

 white mulberry, as it is practised in the Royal nurseries 

 at Munich. When the ring of the scion is too large, a 

 portion is cut out of it longitudinally, so as to admit 

 of its being pressed closely and firmly to the stock ; 

 and when it is too small, it is slit up so as to admit of its 

 being put round the stock. The tube is tied on with 

 Fig. 249. Flute-budding matting, and the summit of the stock is covered with 



the mulberry in spring. „, . ° 



graftmg-wax. 



693. Terminal flute-budding in the South of France (fig. 250). — The 

 head of the stock being cut ofi", a ring of bark, two inches or three inches 



long, is removed. A shoot is then 

 taken from the tree to be in- 

 creased, of exactly the same thick- 

 ness as the stock, and a ring or 

 tube of bark is taken off the thick 

 end (without being split longi- /f^ 

 tudinally), not quite so long as 

 the piece of bark taken off the 

 stock, but provided with several 

 Fig.250. Termmaz good eyes. The tube thus 



Jlute-budding in is placed upon the stock, ^ig- 251- Flute-budding with strips of 



spring or sum- n •, n bark. 



mer. m the room of the one removed, 



and care is taken to make the two edges of bark join below. The part of the 

 stock which projects over the ring of the bark is next split into shreds, and 

 brought down over it all round, in the same manner as when secured by 

 grafting-wax or clay. This mode of budding is chiefly employed in the 

 South of France for propagating walnuts, chestnuts, figs, mulberries, and 

 other trees with thick bark and abundant pith. 



694. Flute-budding with strips of bark (fig. 251).— The head of the stock 

 is cut off» but instead of removmg a ring of bark, as in the preceding mode, it 



