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serted i^ere will be a union of the bark and wood. The 

 graft should be wrapped with grafting clay or wax usu- 

 ally wax on a cloth is best and the stock should not be 

 headed in until the graft shows signs of union, and then, 

 the pruning back should be gradual. 



Cleft Grafting is an old mode rarely now practised. 

 It consists in sawing the stock or limb off square, then 

 splitting it down with grafting knife or chisel, cutting the 

 lower end of the scion in the form of a wedge, and insert- 

 ing it, so that one side, at least, will be in association with 



FIG. 9. 



the albumen or inner bark. The withdrawing of the chisel 

 or knife holds the scion or graft firm, and it may then 

 be protected from storms by grafting wax or clay. 



Grafting Wax is made in various ways. The following 

 has credit of value : four parts rosin, three parts of bees- 

 wax, three parts lard. When well mixed dip cotton cloth 

 in it while warm, and afterward cut them to meet the use 

 you require. 



Making Cuttings, whether of currant, gooseberry or 

 grape, any time from the fall of the leaf of the season, 

 until two or three weeks previous to the starting of spring 

 growth is a good time. 



The gooseberry and currant cuttings should be, say 

 eight inches in length, and of the present year's growth 



