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GRAFTING. 
Fig. 27.—Stock and Scion prepared for Side 
Grafting. 
Fig. 28.—Cleft-Grafting the Camellia. 
the scion is inserted in a bottle of 
water, to supply it with moisture ; 
a practice which, though not abso- 
lutely necessary, is found advanta- 
geous. In another kind of side- 
grafting, the head of the stock is 
cut off, and the scion and the stock 
are cut, as shown in fig. 27. For- 
merly, Camellias were very {fre- 
guently grafted in this manner 
A new mode of grafting the Ca- 
mellia is shown in fig. 28. The 
head of the stock is cut off, and 
only a single leaf left; a cleft is 
then made in the stock, and the 
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Fig. 29.—Side-Grafting with the Scion bound 
on the Stock. 
scion, with only a single leaf at- 
tached, is inserted. The pot with 
the grafted plant is then plunged 
into a hotbed, and covered closely 
