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advancing progressively towards the young scion, but in sucli a manner as not 

 to destroy those near to it, until it has thrown out branches an inch and a half 

 or two inches long. 



265. A very neat mode of grafting, called by the French the *'Bertemboise 

 graft," is described and figured by M. Breuil. Cut the crown of the stock at a 

 long bevel, leaving only about an inch at the top square, 

 cutting out an angular piece to receive the graft, and 

 operating in all respects as in the foi-mer instance. When 

 the stock is not large enough to receive a graft on each 

 side, this mode is preferred, as forming the neatest union, 

 as well as the most rapid ; for all the 

 ascending sap is thus drawn to the 

 summit of the bevel on which the graft 

 is placed. 



266. A graft, honoured with the 

 name of Thoophrastes, is sometimes 

 practised on trees having healthy 

 roots, where it is desired to improve 

 the fruit. Having cut the stem of the 

 tree itself horizontally, or selected a 

 single branch to be operated upon, 

 about twenty inches from the princi- 

 pal stem, tlii-ee vertical cuts ai-e made 1 

 in the bark, at equal distances from each other, about an inch long, 

 selected three or more grafts, a, and shajjed their lower extremities into a 

 tongue somewhat like the mouthpiece of a flageolet, with a neck or shoulder 

 at the upper part, then introduce a graft under the bai'k of each vertical cut, 

 raising the bark for that pm-pose with the spatula of the gi-afting-knife, and 

 placing each gi-aft in such a position that the inner 

 bark of the graft is in immediate contact with the inner 

 bark of the tree. When r,eatly arranged, bandage the 

 whole, and cover with the grafting-paste. 



267. Slit-grafting.— Jn place of the vertical cut 

 through the whole of the stem, in this process a 

 triangular cut is made in the side of the stock, as in 

 the engraving ; the lower end of the graft is then cut 

 so as to fit exactly into the gap made, sathat the inner 

 bark, or liber, meets in contact at all points : this done, 

 it is covered with clay or grafting-paste, and bound up 

 until amalgamation takes place. 



268. A strong and efficient mode of grafting is repre- 

 ■5cnted on the next page. Make an elongated bevelled 

 tuit in the proposed stock from left to right ; make another 



•oi-tical wedge-shaped cut, three inches long, from left 

 <•■ ) right, lea-\-ing a narrow shoulder at the top on the left 



Having 



