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described in most of the books, is essentially this method, modi- 

 fied by letting the end of the cion drop into a bottle of water. 

 Sometimes a portion of the band- 

 age is allowed to hang in water, to 

 keep the cion fresh until the parts 

 join. 



Inarching. Inarching or graft- 

 ing by approach is the process of 

 grafting contiguous plants or 

 branches while the parts are both 

 attached to their own roots. *When 

 the parts are united, one of them 

 is severed from its root. Fig. 89 

 explains the operation. In this 

 case, the larger plant is designed 

 for the stock. When the smaller 

 plant has united, it is cut off just 

 below the union and it thenceforth 

 grows upon the other plant. 

 Limbs of contiguous trees are 

 sometimes grafted in this way. It 

 is the process employed by nature 

 in what is called natural grafting, 

 arched. A thrifty young branch may be inarched into the 

 stem of a fruit upon the same tree, thus supplying the fruit 

 with additional food and causing it to grow larger than it might 

 if undisturbed. 



To join the parts, it is only necessary to remove the barks 

 between the stock and cion and then tie the two together snugly. 

 If out-doors, the junction should be waxed over ; and it is then 

 necessary, also, to secure the branches in such manner that the 

 wind cannot loosen them. The parts are sometimes joined by a 

 tongue, after the manner of a whip-graft, but this is rarely neces- 

 sary. Oranges and camelias were often propagated by inarch- 

 ing in the old practice, but this work is now much more easily 

 done by the veneer-graft. 



Grafting-waxes. There are great numbers of recipes for 



Fig. 88. Cutting-grafting. 

 Grape-vines are often in- 



