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The novel seedling bud capping device is easily deployed on a bud of a seedling due to the use of adherent on either edge (rather than a staple), and more particularly due to its predefinedly selective use of adherent to form an inverted conic space around the bud for receiving sunlight and for capturing the bud stem near its base. The paper stock or the adherent used in the bud capping device may be impregnated with a repellent scent to further ward away browsers to protect the seedling. Preferably, the bud capping device is made from a small, e.g. ~5 inch, square piece of water-repellent paper stock having a layer of glue adjacent at least one edge. The stock is protected on the adherent side by another layer of material to be selectively removed. This protective layer is scored and a free segment of the protective backing layer is removed to expose a region of adherent. Because the adherent is wider at the base than at the top, when the device is deployed near a terminus of a seedling bud, it grasps the base of the bud's stem at a fulcrum of an inverted cone while leaving open the top of the device for exposure to sunlight. The bud capping device prevents browsing of a fragile seedling while permitting the seedling to thrive. The bud capping device may be affixed with a pull-tab scent device of any suitable configuration, preferably with a slow-release animal repellent. The device may be arranged and mass-produced in laminar sheets, cut and formed into rolls for easy dispensing.
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