>i 



Cleft GrafUng, 



should be thorouglily ^\'oike(l daily.- s^overal days pre- 

 vious to use. 

 Fig. 4. 



Cleft Gilifting. — This is the method 

 used m changing the lieads of large trees, 

 and of stocks one or more inches in diam- 

 eter. Select some place free of knots 

 and saw the limb off with a sharp fine 

 toothed saw, and smooth the end remain- 

 mg with a knife. A cleft should be made 

 .about one and a half or two inches deep, 

 with a hammer and a splitting knife. — 

 Now select a scion from the last years growth that is 

 full and well'ripened, and with a very sharp knife 

 vslope it in the shape of a wedge, from one to one and 

 a half" inches long, making the outside a little thicker 

 than the inside. With a chisel^open the split in the 

 stock and insert it so that the inner barks of the scion 

 and the stock shall come together. When .the stock 

 is large insert two scions as in Figure (4). After this, 

 Fig, 5. spread grafting wax over the top of the 

 stock and over the cleft or out side of the 

 scion, so as to exclude the air and water. 

 When the stock does not close:;^up firmly 

 upon the scion, it is necessary to bind it up 

 with cloth dipped in melted grafting wax. 

 Scarfing the Stock. — Wheji only one 

 scion is used in a small stock, it is well to 

 scarf off the side of the stock opposite to 

 it and cover with wax as before. It heals 

 very much sooner and presents a much 

 "more neat appearance. 



Splice-grafting. — This is done very neatly and perfectly, upon 

 stocks which are of the exact size of the scion. Cut off the stock, 

 with an upward slant of an inch or niore,in length, and the scion 

 with a similar downward slant; tie the two firmly together with 

 bass-matting, always fitting their inner barks, or sap-vessels, Jto 

 each other; next, cover the joint with wax or clay, and you have 

 performed one of the neatest and surest modes of grafting yet 

 (known. 



A Scarfed Stock 



