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MODES OF GRAFTING. 



the stock. A clean oblique cut is made with a sharp knife, 

 and the severed parts are then placed together as exactly as 

 possible, and tied firmly with bast or cotton, a coat of mastic 



Splice-Grafting the Peach. 



Splice- Grafting. 



finishing off the operation. Plants of quick growth are readily 

 propagated in heat by this method. 



Whip or Tongue Grafting. This is perhaps the most gene- 

 rally practised of all the methods, and is by French nursery- 

 men termed the " English method." It is the same as the last 

 named, with the addition of a slit or tongue in both scion 

 and stock. These tongues fit together, dovetail fashion, and 

 serve to hold the graft firmly in its place, and at the same time 

 more uniting power is gained, since a larger area of cellular 

 matter is brought into contact. If the scion is much smaller 

 than the stock, it must be joined to one side of the stock only, 

 as if placed in the centre of the stock the chances are that 

 there will be no contact between the uniting surfaces of stock 

 and graft. Our engraving shows this method, which, like the 

 last, is generally adopted when scion and stock are equal, in 

 size. 



Side- Graf ting. This method is the one generally adopted 

 in grafting Camellias and other greenhouse or stove shrubs, 

 and also for some 'hardy evergreens, as the Holly. The stock 

 is not headed down as in the preceding methods, and two or 

 three leaves are left on the graft. A slit or vertical cleft is 

 made in the stalk with a sharp knife, and the base of the scion 



