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GRAFTING AT THE AXIS OF THE LEAF. 



be used as the arch or scion is bent as before, 

 and when cut is sharpened on both 

 sides like a wedge, as in figure (a). 

 In the stock is made an incision 

 from the outside, slanting upward to 

 the very pith, as in figure (6), when 

 the wedge is slid into it, bound, and 



waxed as below. 



14. The common method of inarching small plants 

 is, after placing them both together, to pare a slice 

 from the side of each, of about equal size, when they 

 are simply brought together, and treated like the 

 others. These latter three methods are used when 

 the species or variety will not endure grafting in 

 the more independent ways. 



15. JRoot-grafting of the vine. Some cultivators 

 affirm that they have tried this process with great 

 success ; but our experience is quite different. 



16. Grafting in the axil of the leaf In the axis 

 of a young shoot or a leaf a 

 downward slit is made almost 

 to the heart, and into it is 

 placed a wedge-shaped scion of 

 the same size. It must be re- 

 membered, says Albret, that the 

 cleft should be made in green 

 wood as quickly as possible, 

 else the knife will deposit oxide 

 of iron, which is easily distinguished in the stained 



