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PROPAGATION BY DIVISION. [CHAP. IV. 



Fig. 14 .herbaceous grafting. 



Sometimes this kind of grafting is applied 

 to annual plants. The period chosen should be 

 when the plant is in its greatest vigour, and is 

 just coming into flower. The flower stem is cut 

 off close to a leaf, and a slit is made in the 

 stem downwards. The scion is then taken off 

 near the root of the plant, and the end, being 

 cut into a wedge-shape, is inserted in the slit. 

 The wound is afterwards bound up with strips 

 of cloth spread with grafting-wax, and the leaf 

 taken great care of. When the graft begins to 

 grow, this leaf and all the shoots above it are 

 removed. In this manner artichokes have been 

 grafted on cardoons, and cauliflowers on cab- 

 bages, with great success. Tomatoes have also 



