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PROPAGATION. 



top working a tree eight years old make three opera- 

 tions, going through as many years. If it should 

 be found that the tree is discolored it will be better 

 to abandon the grafting, and leave it for what it is 

 worth, as blight is almost sure to follow. Fig. 8 

 shows the manner of cutting, splitting, and cutting 

 and inserting the cions. The wedge may be made 

 of wood, and is only inserted to hold the cleft apart 

 while the cion is being placed, when it is with- 

 drawn. It will be noticed that the bark on the 

 smaller cion is thinner than on the larger stock, 

 and care must be taken that the 

 inner bark be made to match, 

 disregarding the outside. Suc- 

 cess will depend upon this and 

 upon thorough waxing, and 

 the use of a very sharp, thin 

 knife. 



Fig. 9 shows the cions as 

 placed in the cleft, the wedge 

 withdrawn, all ready for wax- 

 ing. 



Root Grafting. Is done in- 

 doors in winter, the roots called 



stocks and the cions having FIG - 10 - 



ROOT 

 been previously stored in frost GRAFT 



proof cellars. The stocks are AETHER. 



cleaned of most of the side 

 branches and cut as shown in Fig. 10 very much 

 as in whip grafting. The sloping cut is first made 

 at or about the crown of the stock, the split or 



FIG. 9 



CI,EFT 



GRAFT 



READY FOR 



WAXING. 



