GRAFTING. 19 



a support in steadying the graft, until the circulation of 

 the sap has united it with the stock. 



This system is practised largely by nurserymen in the 

 propagation of the apple, and is generally called root graft- 

 ing. The work as we have before said, can be done in 

 mid-winter, the roots and grafts kept in sand for spring 

 planting; or it can be done upon stocks in the open 

 ground in spring, or upon limbs of trees in bearing, and 

 upon which the owner desires to see many varieties. 



. Splice Grafting is similar to the foregoing, except that 

 no slit is made in either stock or graft, and consequently 

 it is not counted as desirable. (see fig. u.) 



FIG. ii. 



Crown Grafting is another mode. It is rarely done, 

 however, except upon small stocks standing in the ground 

 near the upper rootlet or fiber. (see fig. 12.) 



Saddle Grafting. This is one which we have found 

 practically of value with the cherry, peach, plum, apri- 

 cot, etc., and especially if we had a new variety that was 

 received late, (fig. 13,) shows it with the stock pared 

 obliquely on both sides until it becomes an inverted 



