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Side Grafting. This mode is practised for supplying deficiencies in the 

 branches of a tree or shrub. In a great many cases, owing to accidents 

 of various kinds, wood or fruit branches are destroyed, and this mode 

 of grafting is employed to replace them. Then, again, it enables the 

 cultivator to place branches where they will be serviceable, but have not 

 grown naturally. In fact, this mode is well worthy of more attention ; 

 and more especially in the case of young trees, as it affords a good means 

 for repairing deficiencies in growth. It is effected by inserting the scion 

 between the bark and alburnum, or into the latter itself, without 

 heading back the stock. The operation may be performed with a 

 dormant bud early in the spring, as in ordinary grafting, or when growth 

 has advanced in the early summer, as with budding. When the scion 

 is an evergreen it should not be cut from the parent tree till the last 

 moment, and its leaves must be left. Scions of deciduous trees should 

 have their leaves removed. There are two modes of side grafting, one 

 being with a simple branch from four to eight inches long, the lower 

 part being shaped with a long splice cut. A T slit is made in the stock 

 and the scion is inserted, as in budding. The second mode is with a 

 based branch, which is prepared and inserted the same way. After being 

 fixed in their places the scions must be securely bandaged; and covered 

 with grafting wax or clay to exclude the air. 



SIDE GRAFTING. 



Grafting with a based branch Side-grafting with a single branch. 



