GRAFTING. 



This, like budding, has numerous modes of being 

 performed. It is perhaps one of the most plainly un- 

 derstood, practically, from reading, of any course of pro- 

 pagation. 



Whip or Tongue Grafting. This is most generally 

 practised when the stock and scion are nearly of an equal 

 size. The whole gist of it lies in so forming the graft 

 and stock that the two outer surfaces of albumen, or 

 wood of last year's growth, meet one with the other ; or 

 if the stock or scion be either too large, the outer line of 

 the last year's growth shall match on one side. (see 

 fig 10.) The tongue is a notch cut in the stock, corres- 



FIG. 10. 



ponding with one cut in the graft, each having n, lip, as it 

 were, to meet each other, and when put together, serve as 



