NEW METHODS OF GRAFTING AND BUDDING. 



describe, for it does not differ from 

 the ordinary inarching, of which 

 Hardy's opinion is "An artistic 

 method, but of little use." 



The graft by approach is used to 

 replace the occasional misses on the 

 frame wood of cordons or spaliers. It 

 consists in splitting the shoot along 

 its axis, at the point where the scion 

 is to be placed ; a cut is made, varying 

 in depth, reaching the pith, and some- 

 times the opposite side of the shoot. 

 The scion is an elongated wedge, 

 carrying one eye, cut in such a manner 

 as to fit the slit exactly (Figs. 1, 2, 

 3). 



Fig. 1. Preparation of Stock 

 for the Graft by Approach. 



Fig. 2. Graft by Approach. Fig. 3. Graft by Approach. 

 Front view of scion. Side view of scion. 



OTHER GRAFTS. 



The Boisselot graft is an ordinary cleft-graft, in which the 

 scion is placed in a slit made at the bifurcation of two shoots 

 which are pinched. This graft may also be made at the 

 axil of the spurs of a cordon. 



The Baltet graft is a cleft-graft made at the axil of the 

 eye of a shoot. 



The Allies graft is an ordinary whip-tongue graft, made 

 on a green shoot, and prevented from drying by a cork liga- 

 ture similar in every respect to the underground graft. 

 Allies has, at St. Antonin (Tarn-et-Garonne), successful in- 

 stances of this method. We must acknowledge that we 

 have had many failures with it. Even by protecting the 

 joint with lead-foil, as recommended by Julien Daumas, we 

 did not obtain better results. 



