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Tongue Grafting. 

 Make a clean, long slanting cut on the upper end of the 

 stock. Select a scion about the same size, and make a similar 

 cut on the lower end of it. Both cuts should be clean and 

 smooth, and should match each other. Make a little tongue 

 in each by cutting out a small wedge-shaped chip, as shown 

 in the cut. Press stock and scion firmly together, so that the 



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tongues dovetail. Be sure the inner bark of stock and scion 

 coincide; if they do not fit exactly, take them apart and try 

 until they do. If scion is smaller than the stock, it must be 

 carried to one side. Bind firmly with warm grafting cloth 

 14 inch wide, beginning well below the union, winding 

 spirally until above the cut. This method is used with 

 tough-wooded plants, as the apple. As the tongues hold stock 

 and scion together firmly, it is a better method than plain 

 Avhip grafting. 



