60 QUINCE CULTURE. 
another ; and next on the apple, white thorn, and June- 
berry. On the white thorn it escapes the borer. 
The choice of wood for cuttings is last year’s growth 
from near the center of the tree. Be sure they are from 
healthy and vigorous trees. 
If trees are propagated from 
bearing ~ood they will come 
into fruit sooner than if from 
blind wood. Here is a rea- 
son for the difference in the 
bearing age of trees from the same parentage. 
Spring is the best time for grafting, except the root 
grafting already described. In March we work by the 
methods best suited while the bark adheres to the wood, 
and later by those suited to a bark easily separated 
from it. 
Cleft Grafting is the most common method, and is 
done by cutting off the stock smoothly, and splitting it 
ill 
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Fig. 31. 
SPLITTING KNIFE AND CHISEL. 
Fig. 32.—CLEFT GRAFTING. Fig. 33.—SPLICE GRAFTING. 
down from an inch and a half to two inches, according 
to the size of the stock and the thickness of the cion. 
Into the cleft set the cion, with the end sut wedge- 
shaped, the outer edge a trifle thickest, and so placed 
that the liber or inner bark of the graft and stock shall 
