62 QUINCE CULTURE. 
the stock cut off as in cleft grafting. It is specially ser- 
viceable for stocks too large to split, and is best done 
CROWN GRAFTING. 
when the bark will slip. The stock is not split, but the 
tongue of the cion is slipped down under the bark as in 
budding. 
The advantages of cions with only one or two buds are, 
that they do not dry as soon as longer cions, they 
Fig. 39.—BUDDING KNIFE, 
afford less leverage to winds, and are less liable to be 
injured by birds lighting on them. 
Fig. 40.—BUDDING KNIFE. 
5. PROPAGATION BY BuppDING follows the same law of 
affinity observed in grafting. ‘The buds may be taken 
