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surface, and press the scion firmly into the stock, as shown 

 in the figure. The inner bark of the two must fit together. 

 This is known as the tongue graft. Other methods are 

 suggested in the other figures, and may be tried. The two 

 pieces should now be bound tightly together. For this use 

 ribbons of cheese-cloth or muslin, made by covering with a 

 melted mixture of four parts common resin and one part 

 beef tallow. When cool, roll the grafting cloth, as it is called, 

 into the roll and use as desired. This cloth should be used 

 in strips about half an inch wide. Wind it spirally around 

 the graft to hold the two parts firmly in place. The cuts at 

 the end of the scion should be covered with grafting wax, 

 made of four parts resin, two parts beeswax, and one part 

 tallow. When cool pull like taffy till of a buff color. Form 

 into sticks. The grafted plants should then be set away in 

 cool, damp sand, in a cellar or elsewhere, to lie dormant till 

 spring, when they are to be set out in the nursery. 



Twigs on trees or shrubs may be grafted in a similar 

 manner. Thus we may make different kinds of apples, 

 and even pears and other related species grow on the 

 same tree. 



Technically the grafting of a bud on a stock is called 

 BUDDING. It is done in summer or early in September, when 

 the bark will still peel easily. Twigs from the desirable 

 trees are cut, and from these the buds are cut off with a thin 

 shield of bark and a little wood. Remove the leaf that is 

 beside the bud. Make a longitudinal slit in the bark of the 

 stock seedling on the north side, and cut across its top a hori- 

 zontal slit. Peel back the bark slightly, enough to allow the 

 insertion of the shield of the bud. Push the bud in and 

 press back the bark of the stock over it, leaving the bud 



