GRAFTAGE.\ 



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the longer tongue on the stock, is known by various names, but 

 it is oftenest called veneer-grafting in this country. 



Veneer-grafting i s 

 employed mostly from 

 November to March 

 upon potted plants. 

 Stocks which are 

 grown out-doors are 

 potted in the early fall 

 and carried in a cool 

 house or pit. The cion 

 is applied an inch or 

 two above the surface 

 of the soil, and the 

 stock need not be 

 headed back until the 

 cion has united. (See 

 Fig. 76.) Both dor- 

 mant and growing 

 cions are used. All 

 plants in full sap must 

 b e placed under a 



frame in the house, in which they can be almost entirely buried 

 with sphagnum, not too wet, and the house must be kept cool 

 and rather moist until the cions are well established. Some 

 species can be transferred to the open border or to nursery rows 

 in the spring, but most plants which are grafted in this way are 

 handled in pots during the following season. Rhododendrons, 

 Japanese maples and many conifers are some of the plants 

 which are multiplied by veneer-grafting. This method, when 

 used with hardy or tender plants, gives a great advantage in 

 much experimental work, because the stock is not at all injured 

 by a failure and can be used over again many times, perhaps 

 even in the same season ; the manipulation is simple and easily 

 acquired by inexperienced hands. 



CLEFT-GRAFTING. In cleft-grafting the stock is cut off 

 squarely and split, and into the split a cion with a wedge-shaped 



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Veneer-grafting. 



