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on. The stock is not to be beheaded until after the graft has 

 grown, and both stock and scion should be in a state of 

 vigorous health. Select on the named variety a branch that may 

 be easily drawn aside and bound to the stock, and mark where 

 they can be made to meet easily without straining either. 

 Pare away with a sharp knife about two inches' length of bark 

 on both stock and graft where they meet, and suiiiciently 

 deep into the wood of each, so as to bring the edges of the 

 bark of each into close contact, but beware of cutting too 

 deeply into the wood. Make a small tongue upwards in the 

 scion, and downwards in the stock, as in side grafting ; fit the 

 parts together and tie with bast. There need be no claying 



or waxing, for if the operation is performed in a house suitably 

 warm and moist, junction will soon take place. The appear- 

 ance of the plants operated upon will be as in the subjoined 

 cut ; of course one bushy plant of a chosen variety may be 

 surrounded with stocks, and supply scions for them all by a 

 little management. In about nine weeks from the time of the 

 operation the scions may be separated from the parent plants, 

 and the bast removed. In cases where the plants cannot be 

 brought into contact, the scions must be cut off the plant to be 

 propagated. The inarching is to be performed in precisely 

 the same manner as first described, and the end of the scion 

 must be inserted in a phial of water suspended to some part 

 of the stock as in the second figure. 



