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cut upon the stock, in the manner directed for crown grafting, 

 leaving it a clean, regularly tapering half-round wedge," with- 

 out a shoulder. Being then turned in the hand, and held pre- 

 cisely as directed for the bud-scion, page 222, and with just 

 such a careful movement as in cutting out the bud, it is 

 tongued thinly, to correspond with the stock, Fig. 116 b. The 

 two tongues or aprons are then interlocked, care being taken to 

 fit the bark of the graft and stock accurately together, Fig. 

 116 c. It must then be bound with more than usual care, with 

 bass strips, or yarn, or rag, Fig. 116 d, and covered with graft- 

 ing composition or mortar, as Fig. 113 d, e, p. 230. 



Tongue grafting is considerably practiced by nursery-men, 

 who make three or four stocks of one seedling plant, cutting its 

 tap-root into lengths, washing and grafting them during win- 

 ter, and binding them with tow, Fig. 116 e. They are then 

 placed in boxes with sand until spring, when they are set out 

 with a dibber, in the manner prescribed for setting out cab- 

 bage-plants, leaving one bud only above ground. 



INARCHING. 

 Fig. 117. 



a, 6. Companion trees tongued. 



c. Stock in pot upon a stand inarched with a branch, with 



stay-bar. 



d. Companion trees inarched and bound, with strain-bar 



Grafting by approach, or inarching, is a peculiar mode, in 

 which we take a whole branch or small head instead of a sin- 



