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ing proper, in which a detached twig bearing one or more buds 

 is inserted into or upon the stock. 3. Inarching or grafting by 

 approach, in which the cion remains attached to the parent 

 plant until union takes place. Each of these divisions can be 

 almost endlessly varied and sub-divided, but in this discussion 

 only the leading practices can be detailed. The following 

 enumeration, after Baltet, will give a fair idea of the kinds of 

 grafting which have been employed under distinct names : 



I. Bud-Grafting or Budding. 



i. Grafting with shield-buds. 



Bud-grafting under the bark, or by inoculation. 

 " " ordinary method. 

 " " with a cross-shaped incision. 



" the incision reversed, 

 by veneering. 



Bud-grafting, the combined or double method. 

 2. Flute-grafting. 



" common method. 



with strips of bark. 



2. Cion-Grafting or Grafting Proper. 



i. Side-grafting under the bark. 



with a simple branch, 

 with a heeled branch, 

 in the alburnum, 

 with a straight cleft, 

 with an oblique cleft. 

 2 . Crown-grafting. 

 Ordinary method. 

 Improved method. 

 3. Grafting de precision. 



Veneering, common method. 

 ' ' in crown-grafting. 



with strips of bark. 

 Crown-grafting by inlaying. 

 Side-grafting by inlaying. 

 4. Cleft-grafting, common single. 



