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PROPAGATION OF PLANTS. 



on which to use them, although large trees of closely 

 allied species may be near at hand. Under these circum- 

 stances the large roots of old trees may be employed as 

 stocks without removing them from the ground. In 

 using such stocks, the soil should be removed from over 

 the roots seyer-al feet from the main .stenx of the tree, 

 varying the distance according to the age and probable 

 size of the roots sought. The < root is then qut off .and 

 the end brought to the surface, as shown in figure 85, 

 and the cion inserted or affixed in any of the different 

 modes of crown or cleft grafting. It must be apparent 

 that a large root of this kind will supply a cion with ma- 



Fig. 85. SIDE CROWN GRAFTING ON ROOTS. 



terials for making a vigorous growth, which may be util- 

 ized as c'ions when a better class of stocks have been 

 raised or otherwise procured. 



,SADDI< GE^FTIKG. This is a neat but somewhat tedi- 

 ouslnocle of grafting, consequently seldom practised, ex- 

 cept by amateurs in gardening who can spare the time 

 necessary for such complicated operations. It is em- 

 ployed principally upon small stocks, qr on the terminal 

 shoots of young trees. The stock and cion should be 

 nearly of the same size, although the stock may be a little 



