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GRAFTING BY DETACHED SCIONS. 



Fig. 211. 



instead of being clayed, are surrounded with 

 a mass of mould. About a month afterwards 

 the plant is plunged in a mild heat, and in about 

 three weeks the buds from the scions will be 

 seen emerging from the mould with which they 

 are surrounded. This mode of grafting may 

 also be adopted after the vine has started into 

 full growth, and such grafts will take readily 

 throughout the summer. Wedge-grafting (fig. 

 213), which is a modification of side-grafting, 

 has been very successful in grafting Cedrus 

 Deodara, on the cedar of Lebanon. The scions, 

 c, are chosen of the preceding year's wood, from 

 three to five inches in length, and they are in- 

 serted in wood either one or two years old, as 

 may be convenient, and as near the top of the 

 stock as is practicable, in order to gain height. 

 The slit in the stock is cut through the pith, 

 and from 1 to 1-^ inches in length ; and the 

 graft being tied, is coated over with grafting- 

 wax, as being lighter than clay, and not so 

 liable to bend down the shoot. Many cedars of 

 Lebanon at Elvaston Castle have had the ex- 

 tremities of their shoots grafted in this manner 

 with Cedrus Deodara, by Mr. Barron, the in- 



Side-grafting the orange. vent T of this mode - ( See ' Gard - Ma g->' voL 

 xiv. p. 80.) 



Grafting the mistletoe has 

 been successfully performed 

 in the wedge manner by Mr. 

 Pit, farmer and grafter, near 

 Hatfield, in Herefordshire. 

 To be attended with success, 

 there must be a joint let into 

 the soft wood of the stock, or 

 a scion taken off with a heel, 

 and the heel of the preceding 

 year's wood inserted. 



Koot-grafting is merely the 

 union of a scion to the root, 

 instead of to a stem. It is 

 sometimes practised in nur- 

 series, by grafting the apple 

 and the pear on the roots of 

 thorns, tree peonies on her- 

 baceous peonies (see herba- 

 ceous grafting), stove passion-flowers, Japan 

 clematises, &c., on the common sorts, and 

 Side-grafting the vine. with various other stove and greenhouse plants, 



Fig. 212. 



Fig. 213. 



Wedg e -grafting. 



