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as low down as practicable, care being given to 

 leave all the stubs about an equal distance from the 

 center of the tree. 



The operator now takes his grafting knife (some- 

 times called also a grafting chisel) and his light 



FIG. 11 GRAFT AFTER ONE YEAR'S GROWTH 



wooden mallet, and splits a stub down the center. 

 This split should extend from 4 to 6 inches down 

 the branch. The chisel is withdrawn and its wedge- 

 shaped portion is inserted in the center of the stub, 

 so as to open the split about one-half inch. 



Meanwhile the cions have been prepared by 

 cutting them in lengths of 4 inches and trimming 

 each one to a long, thin wedge at the bottom. This 



