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PROPAGATION OF PLANTS. 



same form and fitted into the cleft, as seen in the right- 

 hand figure. An implement, called a cleft-cutter, figure 



. 82. TRIANGULAR CROWN GRAFTING. 



83, is sometimes used for making the incision in the 

 stock ; but it is not indispensable, as the cleft can be 

 made almost as readily with a good, sharp knife. The 



Ffe. 83. 



cions are, as is usual in such methods of grafting, held 

 in position by ligatures of waxed cloth. 



SIDE CROWN GRAFTING. This mode of grafting is 

 employed principally o.n large stocks and at the collar or 

 crown above the main roots, and with species that can- 

 not be "feadily~divided or split to receive the cion, as in 

 the ordinary cleft grafting. Sometimes the wood at this 

 point is gnarled and so cross-grained that a smooth cleft 

 cannot be made with a. knife, and with such the side 



