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THE FLORIST AND 
ANCHOR-BUDDING. 
BY PROFESSOR CHAS. G. PAGE, M. D. 
To the species of budding shown in the figures and described below, I 
have given the name of anchor-budding, from the resemblance of the form 
of the incisions to the shape of an anchor. It had its origin in the difficulty 
which I have often encountered in entering a bud in the T mode of budding, 
especially where the shield of the bud was very tender. When the shield is 
strong, or the wood is not removed from it, if the wings of raised bark on 
the stock in T budding do not stand out or open sufficiently, the shield of 
the bud serves as a wedge to push them open for its entrance. Tender buds, 
however, are often ruined in this way, and their insertion is very awkward, 
especially when we have not the advantage of the foot-stalk of a leaf for a 
handle. The anchor-budding admits the insertion of the most tender buds 
with the greatest ease and no risk of injury. Rivers, of England, recom- 
mends in his treatise on the Rose a mode of budding peculiar to himself. It 
differs from the common T budding, in making the cross-cut oblique to the 
vertical cut, thus < His object is to prevent the stem from breaking off, 
which is more likely to happen with a horizontal than with an oblique cut. 
The anchor-budding, which consists of two oblique cuts, upwards, meeting 
the- vertical cuts, as in Fig. 1, combines this with its principal advantage of 
easy insertion of the bud. It is obvious that the oblique cuts, in conjunction 
with the vertical cut, leave the upper ends or angles of the wings narrow and 
yielding ; and in consequence, they spring or curl out at once^ and make 
