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ORANGE AND LEMON. 
By August, such as have grown of sufficient size may 
be buddqd ; for which purpose provide yourself with 
a sharp pen or budding knife and some soft matting 
or worsted, and having taken the cuttings from the 
trees you wish to propagate, cut off the leaves, but let 
the foot stalks remain. You must choose a smooth 
part of the stock about three or four inches above the 
ground; then with your knife make a horizontal cut 
across the rind of the stock, and from the middle of 
that cut, make a slit downwards about an inch and a 
half long, so that it may be in the form of a letter T, 
but you must be careful not to cut too deep lest you 
wound the stock. Take the scion in your left hand, 
and with your knife make two cuts across the scion, 
each about half an inch above and below the eye ; and 
with your knife slit off the bud with the wood attached 
to it; then take out the wood from the bark in which 
the bud is fixed; and in doing this, be careful not to 
take the heart or root of the bud away with it. To 
ascertain this, examine the bud, and if the heart be 
gone, a small hole will be perceivable, and in this 
case you must try another. Cut the lower part of the 
bark to a point. The bud being now ready, take hold 
of the foot stalk with your left hand thumb and finger, 
hold it to the stock just above the cross-bar of the T, 
and open or raise the bark of the stock (within the 
perpendicular bar,) clearly down to the wood,and slip 
n the bud so that the upper part of it shall meet at 
the cross-bar of the T; then bring the bark of the 
perpendicular bar over the bark of the bud, and so, 
having exactly fitted the bud to the stock, take a piece 
of the matting, and begin to bind from a little below 
