. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 182 CASSELL'S POPULAE Fig. 13.—Cut in Stock and Bud prepared for Insertion. spines till they are about to remove the buds from the branchlet. Arrived at the stocks (Figs. 11 and 12), with our dressed branches, rub off the prickles from two inches or so of the base of the shoots of these (Fig. 11), and make a slit with the budding - knife in the centre of the upper side of the shoot about an inch long, be- ing careful not to penetrate deeper than the bark. Most operators also make a cross- cut, which, with the longitu- dinal one, forms the l
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 182 CASSELL'S POPULAE Fig. 13.—Cut in Stock and Bud prepared for Insertion. spines till they are about to remove the buds from the branchlet. Arrived at the stocks (Figs. 11 and 12), with our dressed branches, rub off the prickles from two inches or so of the base of the shoots of these (Fig. 11), and make a slit with the budding - knife in the centre of the upper side of the shoot about an inch long, be- ing careful not to penetrate deeper than the bark. Most operators also make a cross- cut, which, with the longitu- dinal one, forms the letter T (Fig. 13). Hence the name of T-budding. The onl}^ use of the cross-cut is to facilitate the raising of the bark. It probably hinders rather than facilitates the " taking " of the bud. Taking the branchlet with its buds in the left hand, the lowest bud, with about an inch in length of its wood and bark, is cut out (Figs. 10, 13, 14). The form of cutting and the thickness of section removed are of great practical importance in the art of easy budding, though they may be less vital to the promotion of the union. In no case should the pith be reached or penetrated, about two-thirds of the half-circumference of the shoot being a good medium. Skilful budders, by inserting the knife about half or a quarter of an inch above the bud, reach a maximum depth imme- diately under the bud, and regain the surface about half an inch beyond it, in this way turning out pointed sections petaThed like that given here (Fig. 14), almost with Baik. as if the knife were a cutting-mould. Those less skilful mostly try to imitate this form by several cuttings and parings with a knife. Unless, however, the section is so large or mis- shapen as to be unfit to enter the slit, it had better be left as it is, as the first cuts are always the cleanest and the best. The operator has now the bud detached from the branch, vnth its section of old wood adhering to the bark (Fig. 14). The next ste
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