. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. 208 GARDEN GUIDE When only a bud, instead of part of a shoot, is' transferred, t
. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. 208 GARDEN GUIDE When only a bud, instead of part of a shoot, is' transferred, the process is called " ; (See below.) There is a fundamental necessity in all graftizlg work: The layer just between the wood and bark, the line where the bark peels, of both stock and cion, must be in contact. The stock is the plant grafted upon; the cion (also spelled scion) is the shoot or graft that is inserted. BxjDDiNG. The simplest method of budding is known as shield budding. It consists of placing a shield-shaped piece of bark bearing a bud, beneath the bark of the stock. A. good, hesJthy, well budded branch is chosen; the buds are cut from it, holding the branch upside down. A T-shaped cut is made in the stock near the base of the plant; the free edges are CEirefuUy peeled back euid the bud inserted as shown in the cut. The budded stock is then tied with yarn or rafSa so that the bud is held firmly; all should be covered except the bud. Budding may be employed whenever the bark peels nicely. Prof. y. P. Hedrick, the expert â horticulturist of the Geneva Experi- ment Station, gives the following dates for budding: Rose, July 1 to 10; Pear, July 10 to 15; Apple, July 15 to Aug. 1; Plum (St. Julian stock), July 15 to Aug. 1 ;Plum (Myrobalan stock), Aug. 15 to Sept. 1; Cherry (Mazzard), July 20 to Aug. 1; Cherry (Mahaleb), Aug. 20 to Sept. 1; Quince, July 25 to Aug. 15; Peach, Aug. 20 to Sept. 10. Cion Grafting. There are a number of very simple sorts o
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