PROPAGATION. 



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stock should be as near as may be of the same size. 

 The sloping cuts being made the cut surfaces are 

 simply split as shown, and they are then pressed 

 firmly together. Should one be larger than the 

 other, make them match on one side, while the 

 other laps. Waxing is best done where there is 

 much to do, by keeping the wax warm in a kettle 

 by the use of a small lamp. It is then applied with 

 brush or a flat stick, and, while warm, a strip of 

 cloth is wound around it which holds the pieces in 

 place, and insures a perfect sealing. 



Cleft Grafting. Is that usually practiced in the 

 top of large trees, but let us drop a word of caution 



FIG. 8 SHOWING THE PROCESS OF CLEFT GRAFTING. THE 



FIGURE ON THE RIGHT SHOWING DIFFERENCE IN 



THICKNESS OF BARK. 



here. Trees in the west will not admit of the cut- 

 ting of large limbs for grafting, any more than in 

 pruning, nor a great many of them at a time. In 



