58 PLANT PROPAGATION 
thin edge, as for a splice-graft, and inserted where 
required. 
Grafting by approach is much practised with Vines 
for obtaining fruiting wood of any particular kind in a 
GRAFTING BY APPROACH. 
shorter time than would be possible by ordinary propa- 
gation. Some varieties also succeed better when grafted 
on a stock which is more vigorous than their own 
After the cut portions heal and become established the 
work of detaching them from their own roots and 
removing the branches from the upper extremity of the 
