GRAFTING AND NURSERIES. 



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Actually, in all the south-west regions of France, the 

 English cleft-graft is made with machines; the rapidity of 

 the work is greatly 

 increased, and the 

 knitting is quite as 

 good. The shouldered 

 cleft - graft and the 

 aglet deft-graft are 

 generally used ; the 

 latter seems to us pre- 

 ferable. The scion is 

 cut as shown in Fig. 

 114, the upper extre- 

 mity of the stock being 

 limited by two oblique 

 sections intersecting 

 each other along its 

 greater diameter, and 

 then split along that 

 diameter. The wedge 

 of the scion is then 

 inserted in the slit of 

 the stock, the two 

 aglets exactly covering 

 the two oblique sections Sh ^erli' 



Of the Stock, leaving no 



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portion of the sections 

 exposed to the air. This is one of the advantages of this 

 graft, which is also stronger than the ordinary cleft, the 

 aglets preventing the joint from becoming dislocated in case 



of the binding or ligature 

 rotting too rapidly. 



The hollo'tved cleft- graft 

 can only be made with a 

 special grafting machine ; 

 the sections are almost 

 always defective, clumsy, 

 and bruised ; the scion is 

 cut in the shape of a very 

 short wedge; the joint is 

 wanting in solidity and it is 



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1 his graft is now discarded. 



prepared with graft- 

 ing machine. 



Should 



joined 



Fig. II4 .-Aglet Graft, Stock, Scion, 



and Graft united. 



