126 
CHILDREN'S GARDENS 
IV 
or near the ground for dwarf trees. If you are 
sure that the briar in the wood will not be 
disturbed, it can be budded before it is removed 
to your garden ; but the safer plan is to take 
the briar up one October and plant it where it 
is to remain in the garden, and bud it the 
following July. The briar must be prepared 
by having its branches cut back, and only those 
it is intended to bud left on—perhaps two or 
three on one briar. The actual process of 
“ budding ” is difficult, and your best way of 
learning is to get a kind gardener to show you 
(as I did) ; but if you have no one to help you, 
you might try by yourself from these directions. 
Get a “bud” of some good garden rose— 
that is, not a flower-bud, but a small shoot of 
growth just beginning to sprout at the base 
of a leaf-—and cut it out, leaving some of the 
stem of the rose like a little wedge, and then 
cut off the large green leaf (Fig. i). Then go 
to the wild rose, and if you have not prepared 
it already, select a nice strong branch (remov¬ 
ing all the branches you are not going to bud), 
cut off the end, leaving the branch the length 
you require, and, at about 6 inches from the 
cut end of the branch, make a cut across the 
bark, about half-way round the stem, being 
careful to go through the bark only and not 
to touch the hard wood inside (Fig. 2, A); then 
