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BUDDING AND GRAFTING. 



easily so mat not more than one or two buds project above the 

 ground. To do this work most expeditiously the grafts should ail 

 be of the same length and free from side branches. Two persons 

 should work together, a man who uses the dibber and a boy who 

 carries the grafts. The man makes a hole with the dibber, the 

 boy puts in a graft, when the man immediately makes another hole 

 by the side of and two inches away from that containing the graft, 

 and pressing towards the graft packs the soil firmly around it. 

 After each row is finished in this way the man should turn back on 

 the row and press firmly by the side of each graft with the ball of 

 the foot. 



Fig. 99.— Graft covered v^Uh 

 wax. AA, scionn; B, wax. 



Fig. 100.— .4, sfoci:-, B, scion; C, scion 

 and stock united. 



Another method of planting root grafts which is as applicable 

 for planting cuttings on a small scale is as follows. It is not a fast 

 method, but a very excellent one for a few grafts : The thoroughly 

 plowed land is smoothed off, a line stretched and walked where the 

 row is to come and then thrown to one side. With a spade throw 

 out a furrow along the line, leaving the edge straight and smooth. 

 Against this place the grafts, and then with a hoe turned bottom 

 up push a little earth against the lower part of the root of each 

 graft, and afterwards draw three inches of soil into the furrow 



