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Show The Process of Budding. Some ot the moat Bimple processes per formed by nurserymen are considered by tho majority of people as beyond their capacity, and requiring a great deal of experience and skill, only to be acquired through a severe course of training. Budding is olten classed aa such, when it is one of the most simple proceeses, and easily acquired by any one who is blessed with ordinary ordi-nary powers of observation and imitation, imita-tion, We put a willow limb into moist ground and a callous will form on the lower end of it, 6Cou to be followed by thread-like roots, which support n new growth in the twig and a new tree is started. In budding a similar thing is accomplished. We take a bud formed in the angle of a leaf which if left there would form a branch next year and cut it away from the parent btalk, placing it under the bark of another sprout or tree. When the conditions of moisture are found that we bad in the same case ol the willow, a callous is lor ami and thread of woody roots extend out into the sulk where it has been inserted, and the bud becomes a part of that stock. The following seasou this bud alone ie allowed to grow, receiving the strength of toe whole stock, which pushes it into a rapid development o 1 a new tree. The actual method of doing this can not be learned througti a wordy description, nor even by pictures, as well as by seeing it done nicely by one who knows how. Bui it is worth learning by every farmers boy, and should become a part of his ! education. , |