ADVANTAGES OF. LONG PERIOD FOR. CLAIMS OF GREATER HARDINESS EXAMINED. LATE GROWERS APT TO BURST THE BARK. BUD TENDER SORTS. STOCKS NOT ALWAYS HARDY. PHILOSOPHY OF BUDDING, LIKE GRAFTING, DEPENDS UPON CELL-GROWTH. THE CAMBIUM, OR "PULP". THE BUD, ITS INDIVIDUALITY. THOMSON QUOTED. UNION DEPENDS UPON THE BUD. SEASON FOR BUDDING. CONDITIONS REQUISITE. SPRING BUDDING. CONDITION OF THE BUDS. BUD STICKS. SELECTION OF. THEIR TREATMENT. RESTORATION WHEN DRY. THE WEATHER. RAINS TO BE AVOIDED. USUAL PERIOD OF GROWTH BY EXTENSION. SUCCESSION OF VARIETIES. CHERRY, PLUM, PEAR, APPLE, QUINCE, PEACH. HOW TO DO IT. DIFFERENT METHODS. AGE OF STOCKS. PREPARATION OF. THE KNIFE. CUTTING THE BUDS. REMOVAL OF THE WOOD. THE AMERICAN METHOD. DIVISION OF LABOR TYING. RING BUDDING. PREPARATION OF SCIONS FOR EARLY BUDDING. IMPROVEMENTS IN TYING. BAST, PREPARATION OF. SUBSTITUTES. NOVEL TIE. WHEN TO LOOSEN THE BANDAGE. HOW DONE. INSPECTION OF BUDS. SIGN OF THEIR HAVING UNITED. KNIGHT'S TWO BANDAGES. WHY LEAVE THE UPPER ONE LONGER. HEADING BACK THE STOCKS. RESUME. BUDDING, or inoculating, is the insertion of eyes or buds. This is a favorite method of propagation, which is practiced in the multiplication of a great variety of fruits. The advantages of budding consist in the rapidity and facility with which it is performed, and the certainty of success which attends it. Budding may be done during a long period of the growing season, upon the different kinds of trees we have to propagate. Using but a single eye, it is also economical of the scions, which is a matter of some importance, when we desire to multiply a new and scarce variety. It has been claimed on behalf of the process of budding, that trees, which have been worked in this method, are more hardy and better able to resist the severity of winter than others of the same varieties, which have been grafted in the root or collar, and also that budded trees come sooner into bearing. Their general hardiness will probably not be at all affected by their manner of propagation; except perhaps, where there may happen to be a marked difference in the habit of the stock, such for instance as maturity early in the season, which would have a tendency to check the late growth of the scion placed upon it--the supplies of sap being diminished, instead of continuing to flow into the graft, as it would do from the roots of the cutting or root-graft of a variety which was inclined to make a late autumnal growth. Practically, however, this does not have much weight, nor can we know, in a lot of seedling stocks, which will be the late feeders, and which will go into an early summer rest.