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at once, or set them in nursery rows to be cleft grafted 

 after getting one year's growth. In buying stocks for 

 fruit trees, always get the best. Cheap, low grade stocks 

 are often worthless. 



GRAFTING BY APPROACH. 



Examples of this mode of grafting may be seen in our 

 forests where we find limbs of trees firmly united by con- 

 tinued contact. The French, who are the most skillful of 

 all horticulturists, and describe in their works more than 



Fig. 37. — The grape grafted by approach. 



one hundred modes of grafting practiced at different ages, 

 thoroughly understand this method, and practice it ex- 

 tensively in their systems of training. The season for 



