PROPAGATION OF FRUITS. 41 



the coraposition being still moistened with water for six or 

 seven days successively, at the end of which time it will be fit 

 for use. 



There are various modes of engrafting, which are termed 

 whip-grafting, or tongue-grafting, crown-grafting, saddle- 

 grafting, root-grafting, check-grafting, side-grafting, and, 

 lastly, grafting by approach or inarching. Besides this last 

 mentioned, the following are the most commonly and success- 

 fully practiced. 



1 St. Whip-grafting or tongue- grafting is generally performed 

 in nurseries^ upon small stocks, from a quarter of an inch to 

 a half or a whole inch in diameter; The stock, scions or 

 grafts, should always be of the same size, or approach as near 

 to the same size as possible. They are both to be sloped oif 

 a full inch or more and then tied closely together. This 

 method may be much improved by performing what gardeners 

 call tounging or tipping ; that is, by making an incision in 

 the bare part of the stock downward, and a similar slit in 

 the scion upward; after which they are to be carefully joined 

 together, so that the rinds of both may meet in every part, 

 when a ligament or bandage of bass or candlewick is to be 

 tied round the scion to prevent it from being displaced, and 

 the whole is to be covered over or coated with the clay above 

 described. 



Another description of this mode we copy, being an excel- 

 lent article from Affleck's Farmers and G-ardeners Alma- 

 nack : 



"Although it is better for a farmer to go to a nursery, and 

 there select the young trees he may require, yet every ©ne 

 ought to have a knowledge of grafting and budding — with this 

 view, a sketch descriptive of the process has been prepared, 

 and is here offered : 



" Stocks for grafting or budding are produced either by 

 sowing seed, or from layers, suckers or cuttings; but the stock 

 must be of the same natural family as that to which the graft 

 belongs, or have a close affinity to it. To use others — as the 

 sycamore for the pear and apple, the walnut for the peach, 

 &c. — may do as a matter of amusement or experiment, but 



