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THE APPLE CULTURIST. 



Fig. 20. 



Fig. 19. the strands of the twine into 



the tender bark, to the serious 

 injury of both stock and graft. 

 Fig. 19 represents another 

 plan of American whip-tongue- 

 grafting, in which a is a cion, 

 b a stock. At c the cion and 

 stock are united. At d the 

 union is wrapped with a nar- 

 row strip of 

 cloth satu- 

 rated with 

 grafting- 

 wax. Fig- 

 ure 20 rep- 

 American whip-tongue-grafting. resents Still 



another style of whip-grafting, in which 

 a is the stock, I the cion, and c 

 the two united, ready for the wax. 



Before a person attempts to 

 graft valuable stocks by whip- 

 grafting, he should procure a bun- 

 dle of twigs and a sharp knife, and 

 spend one or two hours during his 

 leisure evenings in educating his 

 hands to handle a sharp knife with 

 skill and precision, in making 

 " neat fits " between the stock and 

 cion. It will be found a great con- 

 venience, also, to employ a small 

 stick having a groove on one side, 

 into which the stock, or the cion, 

 may be placed when the end is being dressed off. 



At Fig. 21, on the following page, a style of saddle-graft- 



Whip-grafting large stocks. 



