Root-grafting. 



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of the apron already described. The counting is done during the 

 process of cutting, and at no other time. 



Fig. 232. 



The second operation is setting these grafts into the roots. Each 

 root is held in the left hand precisely as the scion has been (Fig. 233) ; 



the three cuts are given it (shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 234), tc 

 prepare it for the graft (as represented in Fig. 235). The grafts 



Fig- 234. 



Fig. 235. 



having been placed diredtty under the operator's fingers, and in the 

 right position, each one is successively taken and firmly fitted to the 

 prepared root, as shown in Fig. 236, and as soon as this is done, 



Fig. 236. 



another cut of the knife, three inches lower down the root, severs it, 

 and the root-graft is finished, and drops off obliquely on the table. 

 Another sloping cut on the same root, and a slit for the tongue, are 

 quickly made, and another graft picked up and inserted, the root 



