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THE APPLE CULTURIST. 



Fig. 13. 



Fig. 14. 



Many times the stock will close so firmly on the 

 cions, as has already been stated, as to crush the 

 ends. The grafter, when removing the chisel, 

 must watch the pressure of the sides of the 

 stock on the cions ; and if the ends are liable to 

 be crushed, a small wedge, as shown 

 in Fig. 13, must be driven in by the 

 side of the chisel, so that the cions 

 may not be injured. Graf ting- wax 

 is now applied, as represented by 

 Fig. 14, by pressing it into all the 

 crevices, and covering the wound be- 

 tween the grafts. Great care must 

 ceftheia open ^ e observed, after cions are set, not 

 by a wedge. to move them. Fig. 15 represents 

 a small stock cleft-grafted, with only one cion, 

 made with a shoulder, as shown by Fig. 16. 

 The cion should be set, and 

 taken out, and fitted with a with wax - 

 sharp knife until each shoulder will set 



Fig. 15. 



Fig. 16. 



Fisr. IT. 



down to the stock water- 

 tight. Then the cion will 

 scarcely fail to live. 



Figure 17 represents the 

 manner in which small trees 

 are often grafted. A cion, 

 by about two inches long, is 

 fitted, as shown, to the stock, 

 a. If the cuts are made true 

 L$ iflSL and smooth, and the two 



Cleft-grafting, with a P arts be properly united, a 

 shouldered cion. graft seldom fails to grow. 

 The cion is bound to the stock with grafting- 

 wax, which will hold it in the proper position Splice-grafting. 



