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CRAFTING. 



wedge. The scion is then slit up the center and sides 

 pared down to fit the sides of the stock. 



FIG. 12. 



Side Grafting. This is one of the modes best adapted 

 in the grafting of the cherry, peach, plum, grape, magno- 

 lia, chestnut, etc., when grafts are not of full vigor. As 



FIG 13. 



may be seen in our cut (see fig. 9) a notch or slit of 

 about one inch long is cut in the side of the stock- 

 paring the outer portion, then splitting the graft and 

 paring both the inner and outer portion, so that when in 



