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This plan is better to save young orchard trees than 

 inserting scions to bridge over the stem 

 injury. But where quite large trees are 

 disbarked in any way in the dormant 

 season it is best to spring in scions as 

 shown by Fig. 51. When the bark 

 begins to peel in spring, scions some- 

 what longer than the space to be 

 bridged are cut to a wedge at each end 

 as for cleft-grafting, and by bending 



FIG. 51. Saving the scion the wedge ends are slipped 

 girdled trees. between the bark and wood through 



openings cut above and below the injury. The parts are 



FIG. 52. Sawed-off section of a bridged tree. 



