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PRACTICAL FOEESTEY. 



Evergreen trees that do not belong to the conifers, 

 can also be grafted quite successfully in the same way, 

 in fact, usually are given the same or similar treatment. 

 The cions may be one to three inches long or even longer 

 in some instances, varying according to the species prop- 

 agated. Of course, in grafting conifers the stock and 

 cion must be of near allied species, the pines may 



be worked on pines, 

 spruce on spruce, etc. 

 It is always advisable 

 to select a strong 

 and vigorous growing 

 species as a stock for 

 a weaker one. What 

 is called terminal 

 grafting is sometimes 

 practised quite suc- 

 cessfully, and in fig. 

 15 is shown a cion of 

 pine prepared for in- 

 serting in a stock, 

 and in fig. 16, the 

 same is shown in 

 place, and fastened 

 by a narrow ligature. 

 The leaves at the 

 point where the cleft 

 is made in the stock 

 are wholly removed, while a few below are shortened to 

 allow of applying the ligature as well as inserting the graft. 

 Another mode of terminal grafting as sometimes em- 

 ployed on the balsam fir, is shown in fig. 17, the cleft 

 being made in the end of a shoot, dividing the terminal 

 buds, and the cion inserted between as shown. 



The deciduous conifers, like the larch, taxodiums, salis- 

 buria, etc., may be multiplied quite rapidly by grafting 



Fig. 17. TERMINAL GRAFT. 



