wood with the thumb of the right hand and point of the knife ; having gained 
a hold of this, with a slight jerk or snatch remove the small portion of wood 
entirely. This will come out very easily if the bud is in a proper state. Now 
cut off the lower part of the bark— see the dotted line in d —and your bud 
will represent Fig. 29, a. If the bud is fit for further operations, it will have 
The Amateur Propagator. 
Fig. 28, 
the root or seat of the eye left in it. A properly prepared bud should have 
this seat as prominent as b in Fig. 29, and should be low enough to rest upon 
the wood of the stock when the bark is fitted into the slit prepared for it. 
In treating the bud marked a in Fig. 29 to this process, it will be found that 
the seat of the bud is so far up that it would be impossible for it to lie on 
the wood as described. 
Fig. 29. 
