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eyes in the tubers of the dahlia. It some¬ 
times happens that a large portion of a 
dahlia-root is found to be entirely devoid of 
buds, or as the gardeners call them, eyes; 
and when this is the case, in whatever soil 
the root may be planted, it will never send 
up a stem. Other dahlia tubers, on the 
contrary, may be found full of buds; and 
when this is the case, one of them is scooped 
out, and a corresponding hole being made in 
the barren tuber to receive it, the bud is 
fitted in, and the point of junction covered 
with grafting wax. The tuber must then be 
planted in a pot with the budded part above 
the soil; and the pot plunged into a hot-bed 
till the bud begins to push, when the tuber 
may be planted out into the open ground. 
What is called flute-grafting, is in fact, a 
kind of budding; as it consists in taking a 
ring of bark, on which there is a bud, off a 
shoot; and then supplying its place with a 
ring of bark, with a bud attached, from 
another tree: placing the suppositious bud 
as nearly as possible in the position of the 
true bud. Sometimes, however, this is not 
thought necessary; and the ring of bark is 
