CHAPTER XV. 

 Grafting* 



WHILE all the various forms of ordinary grafting are 

 well understood, and need no description, there is 

 a form practiced by my friend, E. W. Kirkpatrick, 

 of McKinney, Texas, an old nurseryman and fruit-grower, 

 that is so simple and uniformly successful with all kinds of 

 trees and vines, that it deserves to be more widely known. 



SCION AND STOCK COMBINED. 



As seen from the illustration, if the stock to be grafted is 

 growing in the ground, cut off the top as for saddle grafting, 

 but with one of the sloping cuts about twice as long as the 

 other, as shown. Then make an incision into the side of the 

 scion, which should be five or six inches long, about one-third 



(i53) 



