VENEER AND SIDE-GRAFTS. 



and growing cions are used. All plants in full sap must be 

 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 follow- 

 ing season. Rhododendrons, Ja- 

 panese maples and many conifers 

 ' are some of the plants which are multi- 

 plied by veneer-grafting. Such plants 

 are usually laid upon their sides in 

 frames (Fig. 47) and covered with moss 

 for several days, or until 

 healing begins to take 

 place. This method, when 

 used with hardy or tender 

 plants, gives a great ad- 

 vantage in much experi- 



112. Veneer graft 



mental work, because the stock is not 

 at all injured by a failure, and can 

 used over again many times, perhaps 

 even in the same season ; and the ma- 

 nipulation is simple, and easily acquired 

 by inexperienced hands. 



Side-grafting. There are various 

 methods of inserting a cion into the 

 side of a stock without cutting off the 

 stock. One of the best styles is shown 

 in Fig. 113. The example upon the 

 right shows the cion set into an oblique //J ' Slde ^ ra ^ <**) 

 cut in the stock, and that upon the left shows the lower 

 part of a thin-bladed chisel, with a bsnt shank, used for 



