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the slice of bark and wood is taken. The whole can then 

 be bound around with cotton cloth, covered with the 

 composition described before. In all grafting it should 

 be borne in mind, that it is essential for the bark of the 

 cion and that of the stock to touch each other in some 

 point, and the more the points of contact, the greater 

 will be the chance of success. 



Mind-grafting is also sometimes practiced, but is more 

 uncertain than the former, as the swelling of the stock is 

 very apt to force the cion 

 out. This mode must be 

 practiced when the bark 

 peels easily, or separates 

 with ease from the Avood. 

 The top of the stock must 

 be cut off square, and the 

 bark cut through from the 

 top about an inch down- 

 ward. The point of the 

 knife can then be inserted 

 at the top, and the bark 

 peeled back, as in a, fig. 15. 

 It is desirable, as before, 

 that a bud should be left on 

 the other side of the stock, 

 opposite this opening ; and 

 the French prefer, also, to have a bud left on the outside 

 of the part of the cion which is inserted. The cion should 

 be cut out and sloped flat on one side, as in 5, fig. 15 ; then 

 inserted in the stock between the bark and wood, as in <?, 

 and bound with mat-strings, or strips of grafting cloth. 



The French have another mode of grafting stocks about 

 the size of a quill or the little finger. It is done by plac- 

 ing the knife about two inches below a bud which is just 

 on the point of starting, and cutting half way through 

 the stock, and two inches down, as in fig. 16. The cion 



Fig. 15. — RIND GRAFTING. 



