. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. Fig. Fig. 35. Budding at other Seasons and for other Purposes than Propagation.—On the Con- tinent, where the grafting or budding of fruit- buds in the spring is much more practised than in England, buds something of the form or size of Fig. 35, with the woody sheath left intact, or clusters of buds as in Fig. 33, d, e, are mostly employed. When one bud, as in Fig. 35, is used, the process is called budding; when more than one, as in d, e (Fig. 33), it is called graft- ing. Skilfully performed, either process is alike useful and success- ful in tr
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. Fig. Fig. 35. Budding at other Seasons and for other Purposes than Propagation.—On the Con- tinent, where the grafting or budding of fruit- buds in the spring is much more practised than in England, buds something of the form or size of Fig. 35, with the woody sheath left intact, or clusters of buds as in Fig. 33, d, e, are mostly employed. When one bud, as in Fig. 35, is used, the process is called budding; when more than one, as in d, e (Fig. 33), it is called graft- ing. Skilfully performed, either process is alike useful and success- ful in transferring fruit-buds from where they are not needed to other parts of the same tree, or of different trees, where but for those transferred buds there would be few or no fruit. Budding with wood-buds in a dormant state may also be practised in the spring to furnish shoots, branch, or buds, where there would otherwise be a deficiency. With more expert and skilful manipu- lation it would probably become possible to have a fair crop of Pears most seasons, as it is comparatively rare to find a season in which few or many Pear-trees are not so over- crowded with fruit-buds as to offer a sufficient surplus for furnishing many other trees. Fig. 36 shows the surplus bud in Fig. 35 safely trans- ferred to the barren stem or branch of another tree. Propagation by Layers. — This, though quite practicable, is seldom adopted as a means of pro- pagation. (See Rose Layers, page 216, Vol. I.) Pear-layers, however, are treated somewhat differently, in- asmuch as the entire shoots are generally covered with soil with the exception of a single bud or two. This, however, is by no means essential to success, though it is the best mode of raising Pears and Quinces for stocks. Considerable difference of opinion prevails as to the best Quinces to grow for Pear stocks. The three best known are the Round or Apple Quince, the Ob- long or Pear Quince, and the Portugal, with fruit something like the l
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