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Work to be done in the Garden . 
killed the winter before last, and it was such a 
pity I had not got a bud ! and a mere Rose from 
a flower vase may give us the material from which 
to grow a new plant. 
The budding is very easy when once you know 
how to do it. Your only implements need be a sharp 
penknife and a little worsted, or a little stiff clay, 
(called grafting clay,) or even a strand of bast 
which has been well steeped in water ; you also 
may find a small ivory paper-knife come in ex- 
tremely useful. 
Having decided exactly the tree you wish to 
bud, the next thing to do is to prepare the bud. 
You see a little plump pinkish bud not yet be- 
ginning to open out into leaves, itself growing 
generally just above a large leaf. Taking your 
penknife, you must cut out this bud most carefully 
— just scooping it out, as it were, with a piece of 
bark about an inch long attached to it. A little 
bit of wood will come off with the bud, and this 
must be taken out without hurting the bark, which 
generally will separate from it easily. If it does 
not do so, you will find the bud quite useless. 
So far, then, for the bud. On the tree you find 
a suitable place for a bud on a nice healthy shoot, 
and here you draw the point of your penknife just 
