Budding

(büdding.) (Hort.)A method of propagating plants. A bud with a small portion of bark is neatly cut off and transferred to another tree, a slit being first made in the bark of the latter to receive the bud. It is then bound round with thread until the bud has grown to and become part of the tree. The branch springing from the bud will afford flowers and fruit similar to those of the tree from which it was taken. [s. 122]