MKTIIODS OF GUAFTING. 



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years to produce almost a wagon-load of the finest 

 pears. 



AVlien it is desirable to graft small stocks, it should 

 be done by the process known as whip-grafting, as 

 illustrated by Fig. 12. In Fig. 13, the cleft, which 

 is a simple split, is exhibited open, as it would be 



T\s. 12. 



Fig. 13. 



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after the insertion of the parts. Cleft-grafting is 

 usually jierformed on stocks of more than half an 

 inch in thickness — as shown by Figs. 10 and 11. 



All of these operations can be performed during a 

 month or six weeks subsequent to the first swelling 

 of the bud, or from the fifteenth of March to the first 

 of May. The exposed surfaces should be well covered 



