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Dr. Morris : If you have something special, where you want to 

 use up some big scions. But you can use the plane on little grafts 

 just as well. Now this is the stock and Dr. Deming is going to rep- 

 resent Mother Earth. 



Mr. Smedley : Are the scion and stock necessarily of the same 

 diameter ? 



Dr. Morris : Not necessarily, but preferably so. One's sense 

 of nicety might demand that they be just alike, but you will find it 

 doesn't make any difference. It takes a little longer to put in a big 

 scion of his sort but it is very sure to grow. Your tree is already 

 made by the time you have done this. 



Mr. Smedley: Should you have bark contact all around? 

 Dr. Morris : I could do it with contact on one side. 

 Mr. Corsan : What time of the year do you do it? 

 Dr. Morris : Almost any time of the year, preferably May or 

 June. 



Mr. Corsan : Do you wax that before you put the raffia on ? 

 Dr. Morris : After everything is all complete that is my final 

 touch. 



Mr. Weber: When the stock is sappy wouldn't the sap jam 

 the edges of the plane and roughen the bark? 



Dr. Morris : Not if you make it shave. I get the edge of my 

 plane so it will shave. Then it will not roughen it. I can screw 

 in a scion two feet long. I have tried it and had it start into 

 growth. Thus I have got half my tree under way. Now I cover the 

 v/hole thing with melted paraffin. 



Mr. Corsan : How do you apply the paraffin, paint it on ? 

 Dr. Morris : Yes, with a soft brush. 



Mr. Corsan : Do you use the stuff you buy at Woolworth's by 

 the pound ? 



Dr. Morris : Yes, I buy what they call parawax. 

 Question : It is not necessary to wrap a scion with raffia if it 

 is fastened with screws? 



Dr. Morris : No. After it is screwed you don't have to use 

 raffia. I use either screws or raffia. In a large one like this the screw 

 is preferable. In a smaller one the raffia would suffice. It is the 

 plain splice graft that I use almost to the exclusion of anything else. 

 Mr. Weber: Wouldn't it assist the union, if the graft didn't 

 make a perfect fit, to wrap it with raffia to hold it together ? 



Dr. Morris : Possibly, but I think with the plane one can make 

 a perfect fit. That is the idea at any rate. After three weeks of 

 growth that will stand any storm. 



Question : How do you tell when the paraffin is the right tem- 

 perature ? 



Dr. Morris : That is very much as a woman does in cooking. 

 You put in so much of everything. It is a matter of experience. I 

 get it very hot but not hot enough to scald. The idea is to have it 

 hot enough and to have it very thin. On one occasion my light went 



