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PRACTICAL PLANT PROPAGATION 



should be provided at 

 the start, for, when the 

 cion grows, little surface 

 should be exposed to the 

 wind. 



In the devastated 

 areas where trees were 

 cut down, the French 

 have crown grafted many 

 trees. Regarding this 

 the Literary Digest 

 reports the following 

 comment from UIllus- 

 tration (Paris, April 28, 

 1917): 



Fig. 



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62. Veneer crown grafting. This is a modifi- 

 cation of the crown graft (After Baltet) 



"The work of repara- 

 tion was taken up in 

 time, and Nature was 

 given a chance to act. 

 When the bark of the 

 oldest trees was too 

 deeply grooved to admit 

 the passage of young sap, 

 the old trees were elim- 

 inated, and trunks not 

 exceeding 25 centimeters 

 in diameter were left to 

 send up shoots. Four or 

 five of the most vigorous 

 of the shoots will be used 

 for grafting-slips next 

 year. 



"Some of the trunks 

 saved have been grafted 

 even with the ground 

 when planted, so the 

 new growths, springing 

 from the trunks at a 

 height of 80 centimeters, 

 will bear, above the graft, 

 exactly the same kind of fruit that the tree bore at first. Other 

 trees (not the issue of grafts, but seedlings, whose bark has not been 

 roughened by age, are expected to recuperate very rapidly. 



Fig. 63. Inlay ed crown grafting. It is well to 

 have a special inlaying knife for cutting this 

 sort of a crown graft but it can be made without 

 one. The cion is cut with a triangular face with 

 a notch which will act as a support upon the 

 stock. By placing the cion upon the stock the 

 section of wood can be marked with a knife .and 

 easily removed (After Baltet) (See page 117) 



