136 THE FRUIT GROWERS GUIDE. 



Inlaying a piece of wood with a bud in the stock is little practised. It offers a way, 

 however, to add different varieties to trees, and is brought to the notice of those 

 amateurs who may desire to make interesting experiments. The inlaying is performed 

 in the way represented on the right of the tree (/, page 135). The scions are 1 to \\ inch 

 in length, and are let into the branches deep enough to take good hold of the wood. 

 Clean cuts are essential, success depending on speedy and exact manipulation. The 

 scions must have the growth of the buds retarded until the sap is starting well in 

 the stock, and should be cut back so as to accelerate the growth of the inserted parts. 

 The bud-like grafts require careful tying and covering neatly with wax, an excellent 

 preparation being formed as follows : Take 27 ounces of common yellow resin ; melt 

 it gradually so as to drive off the turpentine ; when reduced to the consistency of 

 syrup, add 10 ounces of alcohol, shake them thoroughly together, and pour the mixture 

 at once into a well-stopped bottle. When the grafts are inserted and tied, cover the 

 whole surface, except the bud, with this varnish, using a small painter's brush. It 

 may be applied in any weather, and is neither affected by heat, cold nor wet, being 

 excellent for spreading thinly over wounds. 



Inarching is the most certain mode of getting a branch of one tree established on 

 another. Nature sometimes acts in that way. Two branches collide, and the barks 

 of both being ruptured by abrasion, the alburnum then joins the branches together. It 

 differs only from grafting in having the scion still attached to its parent whilst the 

 union with the stock is proceeding. Many ingenious applications of inarching are 

 recorded. It has been practised on the branch of a peach tree that had become 

 deprived of leaves above the fruit, a neighbouring branch with leaves being attached to 

 the denuded part, whereby the fruit proceeded to maturity. It has also been employed 

 to put new parts on naked branches or on stems, and an ingenious gardener, having a 

 number of choice young pear and other fruit trees barked round by rabbits, planted a 

 strong stock by the side of each, marching this to the stock of the fruit tree from the 

 bottom to above the barked part. The barked trees were thus saved, grew well, and 

 bore excellent fruit. 



In proceeding by this method, it is best in some cases to cut off the head of the 

 stock, leaving a bud or two above the intended place of union ; in others, such as vines 

 or oranges, it may be left on till the union is effected. Having the stock conveniently 

 placed for joining the desired branches, mark where they will most easily meet, and 

 from those parts cut a slip of bark and a portion of wood 2 or 3 inches in length 



