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grafts of four or six buds each in length. These are usually 

 carried in a pouch, or bag, or apron tucked up by the corners, 

 worn for this purpose while grafting, which, when two knives 

 are used, serves also to carry the one while the other is in the 

 hand. 



Scions, or grafts in their proper lengths, as above, may be 

 cut at any time from late fall through wmter, and kept for 

 weeks, or even months, simply wrapped in paper ; or if sealed 

 at the ends with shellac or collodion, and the wrapper also 

 made air-tight, so much the better, particularly if it is intend- 

 ed to transport them through warm latitudes. 



They may also be sent by mail with the greatest ease, and 

 if used as single-bud grafts (see next figure), each graft will 

 furnish at least enough for four stocks. 



MODES OF GRAFTING. 



As budding is the planting of a bud cutting, so, in general, 

 grafting is the planting of a branch cutting, the most marked 

 distinction between them being that the bud scion is the 

 growth of the current season, the graft 

 scion of the season previous, and sin- 

 gle-bud grafting links, the two processes. 



SINGLE-BUD GRAFTING. 



SINGLE-BUD GRAFTING may be prac- 

 ticed with entire success by inserting 

 buds from carefully-preserved graft sci- 

 ons, in the manner directed for bud- 

 ding, page 222, as early in the spring 

 as the bark of the stock is found to run, 

 in which case, however, the stock is cut 

 down at once in one or other of the 

 modes directed for budded stocks, page 

 224, figures 107 c, e, and all natural 

 a. The stock headed down, growth kept off, so as to force an imme- 



with the graft bud inserted. , r . ,, A , , , - T 



&. The stock headed down diate growth from the bud-graft. It 



and prepared for the bud as a may a i so 



patch, or tongued. . ' 



The bud-graft. 



performed before the bark 



f 



runs by heading down the stock as for 



