. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. is most favourable to this process ; and all the stepsof the process, the part of plant selected, the manipu-lation, and subsequent managcmcnl, arc devised witlithe intent of making the most of the growth of cellsbetwcea the bark and the wood. SUPPLEMENT TO THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [July 7, 1877. Take a healthy young Rose shoot, choose a -wellgrown bud upon it, pass a sharp fine knife into theshoot about three-quarters of an inch below the bud,and drawing the knife upwards pare off a smallshield-shap
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. is most favourable to this process ; and all the stepsof the process, the part of plant selected, the manipu-lation, and subsequent managcmcnl, arc devised witlithe intent of making the most of the growth of cellsbetwcea the bark and the wood. SUPPLEMENT TO THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [July 7, 1877. Take a healthy young Rose shoot, choose a -wellgrown bud upon it, pass a sharp fine knife into theshoot about three-quarters of an inch below the bud,and drawing the knife upwards pare off a smallshield-shaped morsel of bark with the bud, and thethinnest possible film of wood inside the bark, theknife being drawn out a little above the bud. For the stock a healthy free-growing shoot shouldbe chosen, a short cross-cut should be made with asharp knife just through the bark, and another down-wards from the centre of it from a to (5, fig, 11 ; theupper angles of bark on each side of the stem of thisX-shaped incision should be raised from the woodwith the thin handle of the budding knife, and then. FiG. II.—T-DUDDIKG. (SEE ALSO FIG. X7, g^ (the thin film of wood inside the bark shield of thebud having been gently removed so as not to jerk outthe growing point inside the bud), this shield holdingthe bud should be slipped, right way upwards, downthe Xshaped incision as in c, fig. 11. The top ofthe bark shield, tr, must be cut sharply across fig. d,so that it may fit cleanly and closely up to the severedbark at the top of the X ?> their severed cells must thusbe in contact, and the shield with the bud closely fittedagainst the exposed wood of the stock. The flaps of theraised bark being put down again over the bark of theinserted bud, and the bud bound firmly in its place, butnot too tightly, with bast or worsted, fig. 12 ^, orwhatever material may be preferred, the operation iscomplete. The Philosophy of Budding. The modus operandi of budding may be variedalmost indefinitely, but th
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