PROPAGATION BY GRAFTING. 



selections of the best forms and most distinctly marked, 

 these peculiar characteristics which in a majority of in- 

 stances give to the plants their special value become 

 intensified. 



In the alter treatment of the veneer-grafted plants, 

 much will depend upon the climate where they are grown. 

 If the winters are severe, they may need protection under 

 glazed sashes, board shutters, or lath screens, with plenty 

 of hay or some similar material filled in around the plants 

 to prevent injury from alternate freezing and thawing or 

 low temperature. The propagator must necessarily be 

 the best judge of the amount of protection required, if 

 any is needed. 



The stock above the cion should not be removed until 

 the following season, and in some of the very slow grow- 

 ing kinds it may be well to leave it intact until late in 

 the summer or autumn. 



BOTTLE GRAFTING. While the mode of xeneerjjTaft? 

 ing described is undoubtedly the best,, and most reajfly 

 and rapidly performed, others are sometimes employed ; 

 probably more To show how many different ways there 

 are of obtaining similar or the same results, than for 

 their practical utility: What is called " bottle grafting" 

 is one of these variations from the more general method 

 of veneer grafting, In this, the lower end of the cion, 

 instead of being fitted to the stock, is placed in a bottle 

 filled with water, as shown in figure 91. The upper part 

 is fitted to the stock in the same way as in the former 

 mode. 



Another and rather more complicated form of bottle 

 grafting is shown in figure 92. A E, the stock ; B, the 

 cion ; D, ligature ; II H. branches and leaves of the head 

 of the cion ; F, bottle filled with water, and G, stake to 

 which the bottle is tied. This latter form may answer 

 for amateurs who may wish to graft an Orange, Lemon, 

 Oleander or similar specimen plants, but the professional 



