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ORDINARY CROWN GRAFTING. 



Crown or Rind Grafting. This is a method of grafting which is 

 often practised with old trees. With this method the branches are cut 



across as directed for cleft-graft- 

 ing, and slits are made on the sides 

 from the top, so as to penetrate 

 through the inner bark. The scion 

 is cut sloping as in whip-grafting, 

 and the bark of the stock raised 

 carefully. Then the scion is in- 

 serted, without bruising, between 

 the wood and the inner bark. 

 The edges of the bark of the stock 

 are then brought close to the scion, 

 and the graft is bound and waxed 

 or clayed. An improved method, 

 now extensively practised by Euro- 

 pean fruit propagators, differs from 

 the ordinary system of crown- 

 grafting in two important points. 

 In the first place, the stocks are cut 

 obliquely instead of at right angles, 

 by which means they are better 

 protected from the weather. Then, 

 by leaving a tongue on the inner side of the scion, which fits accurately 

 on to the sloping face of the stock, there will be a correspondingly 

 larger space in contact, and consequently a better chance of a strong 

 union. 



1. Prepared scion. 



2. Stock with scions fixed. 



IMPROVED CROWN GRAFTING. 



(A} The stock with top cut obliquely at (S) ; bark raised on one 

 side of the stock at (C). (D) Bark not raised. (E) Alburnum and ((?) 

 Lower part of scion to be covered by the lip (C). (I) Strip removed from 

 lower part of scion. (J") Union completed. Section of the stock shown 

 by (.B), with lip or portion of the bark raised from the wood. 



