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yards the writer found low-branched cherry-trees with 

 many wild-cherry stocks planted beneath. In June when 

 new wood was rapidly forming the children were taught 

 to inarch twigs of the cherry on the wild stocks beneath, 

 where they stood until the next spring, when each student 

 claimed his own tree to plant on the home grounds. It 



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FIG. 21. Natural inarching. 

 (After Bailey.) 



FIG. 22. Inarching two 

 potted plants. 



is the most certain way yet found by the writer to graft 

 young stocks of the shellbark hickory, chestnut-, oak, and 

 English walnut, where the seedlings are in pots. In 

 France and other parts of west Europe the writer has 

 observed some queer effects produced by inarching. In 

 gardens every branch of fruit-trees was inarched on one of 

 neighboring trees in such a way as to form fanciful designs 

 imd arbors beneath. Indeed, whole groups of trees had a 

 common circulation of top and a common support from 



