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GRAFTING BY DETACHED SCIONS. 



with four or five leaves. By this time the sap has begun to flow freely, 

 so that there is no danger of the stock suffering from bleeding ; though if 

 vines are in good health and their wood thoroughly ripened, all the 

 bleeding that usually takes place does little injury. The best mode of 

 grafting the vine, however, is by inserting a single bud with a piece 

 of wood an inch or thereabouts in length attached to it. Cut 

 half the under portion of the wood away, and fit it into the stock 

 exactly at each end, and closely to one or both sides of the stock. 

 Leave an eye or two on the stock beyond the graft until the eyes break, 

 when they may be cut off, and the bud will form a strong healthy 

 shoot. Mr. Stevens, at Trentham, also buds growing vines with the 

 current year's wood, as roses are budded. In Flanders the rose is 

 frequently grafted in the cleft manner, the scion, if possible, being of 

 the same diameter as the stock (fig. 205, #) ; or the cleft in the stock 

 is made so near one side of the cross section that the bark of the 

 wedge part of the scion may fit the bark of the stock on both sides (ft). 



Fig. 205. 



Fig. 206. 



Cleft- grafting the rose. 



Cleft-grafting the camellia. 



Fig. 207. 



Sometimes a shoulder is made to the scion (c), in order that it may 

 rest with greater firmness on the stock ; and the wedge part of the 

 scion, instead of being part of an internode, as at d, is, when prac- 

 ticable, selected with a bud on it, as at e. The camellia 

 is sometimes cleft-grafted, with only a single bud on the 

 scion (fig. 206, a), which is inserted in the stock, ft, just 

 when the sap is beginning to rise, and being tied, it is 

 found to take freely without claying. Epiphyllum 

 truncatum is frequently cleft-grafted on Pereskia aculeata, 

 as shown in fig. 207. 



Saddle -grafting (fig. 208) is only applicable to stocks 

 of moderate size, but it is well adapted for standard 

 fruit-trees. The top of the stock is cut into a wedge 

 shape, and the scion is split up the middle, and placed 

 Pe- astr ^ e on ** tne i nner barks being made to join on one 

 rcskia aculeata. side of the stock as in cleft-grafting. The tying, claying, &c., 



