144 Nebraska State Horticultural Society. 



In this method we like scions three or four inches long, of the 

 sort we wish to increase, getting them from the new growth as soon as 

 the terminal buds have formed. We slope these scions with a sloping 

 cut, and run them beneath the bark of the tree we wish to improve by 

 the aid of two cuts less than an inch long. The first cut is made on a 

 line with the growth of the tree, the second parallel with the first, 

 one-fourth of an inch away, three-fourths of an inch lower down. 

 Across the top of the upper cut the knife is drawn, raising the bark, 

 behind which the scion is pushed between the two cuts, tying it in. It 

 is necessary that the tree that is grafted should be in an active state 

 of growth, with plenty of descending sap, which spreads over the cut 

 surface of the scion. Healing and growing being instantly. No tying 

 or waxing used. If one chooses to be careful, one hundred growing 

 scions can be had from one hundred scions set. 



