MODES OF GRAFTING. 



tree, afterwards inarching the two stocks together just above 

 the barked or damaged portion. After the union is effected, 

 the old stock can be cut away. In most cases it is easier and 

 better to grub up young damaged trees and plant others ; but 

 in the case of some new or rare fruit-trees or ornate shrubs, 

 which are difficult to replace, devices like those here described 

 are of great practical value. 



Grafting Cuttings. It often happens that certain species 

 in a genus are readily propagated by cuttings, while others root 

 slowly, or, as in the case of some Aralias, fail altogether. This 

 difficulty can in some cases be overcome by grafting a cutting 

 of the delicate or slow-rooting 

 species on to a cutting of a 

 species which roots easily, by 

 simply splicing them together as 

 shown in our engraving, or by 

 cleft-grafting or inlaying. This 

 plan is frequently adopted by 

 Continental propagators, and is re- 

 commended by M. Baltet in the 

 case of the Aucuba. Mr T. 

 Baines, writing to the * Gardeners' 

 Chronicle,' says : " I have made 

 some experiments with cutting 

 grafting before the cuttings were 

 inserted in the striking pots, by 

 uniting two cuttings of different 

 varieties of the same species. If 

 flowering-plants, the process was 

 simply to unite the two cuttings 

 from their base an inch or so up- 

 wards, by paring them down, so as 

 to fit the two together, and securing them by a ligature of bast 

 in their position before inserting the cuttings. In the manner 

 indicated I once grafted cuttings of Dipladenia crassinoda and 

 D. magnified : the latter, as is well known by growers of these 

 plants, is a stronger-constitutioned variety than the former ; it 

 is also profusely marbled with white over the surface of the 

 flowers. The cuttings made roots, united, and grew on as 

 nearly equal in size as possible, both coming into flower about 

 the same time the flowers on that portion of the plant com- 

 posed of the variety magnifica being in no way different from 

 their usual condition ; but the whole of the flowers upon the 

 crassinoda portion were marbled just similar to the other 

 variety, at once showing that they were affected by the union." 



Cutting-Graft. 



