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BUDDING. 
[chap. IV. 
taken from any part of the stock; 
though it is always replaced by a 
ring of bark containing a bud from 
the scion. There are many other 
kinds of budding, but as the prin¬ 
ciples are the same in all, it is not 
necessary to detail them here. The 
blade of the budding knife should 
curve outwards, to lessen the dan¬ 
ger of wounding the wood when 
making the incisions. 
The principal points to be attended 
to in budding , are; to choose a fresh 
healthy bud; to separate the bark 
to which it is attached without 
wounding it, quite cleanly from the 
wood; to make a clear incision 
through the bark of the stock, and 
to raise it without wounding it from 
the wood; to press the bark con¬ 
taining the bud, closely to the wood 
of the stock so that no air can re¬ 
main between them; and to per¬ 
form the operation in moist weather, 
not earlier than the last week in 
July, nor later than the first week 
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