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PROPAGATION OF PLANTS. 



gardener will seldom have occasion to resort to such com- 

 plicated and time-consuniing methods. 



SIDE GRAFT WITH VERTICAL CLE.FT. There are prop- 

 agators who prefer this method to the veneer graft, and 

 it is usually performed under the same conditions. The 

 cleft in the stock is made sloping downward and inward 

 towards the center of the stock, cutting nearly or quite 

 through the alburnum. The cion is made in the form of 



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BOTTLE GKAFTTNG. 



BOTTLE GRAFTING, MODIFIED. 



a thin wedge and thrust into the cleft and held in place 

 with the ligature of bass. This form of side graft is 

 usually employed in what is called herbaceous grafting, 

 as used in grafting Melons, Squashes, Dahlias, Potatoes, 

 Tomatoes, etc. The cion, when grafting such succulent 

 plants, is not pared down so thin as with woody plants, 

 but left more in the form shown in figure 93 A, stock ; 



