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CALIFORNIA FRUITS: HOW TO GROW THEM 



to ninety per cent successful in the nursery and even more on 

 branches of large trees. The following is a condensed description 

 of the method : 



The scion is prepared as for a whip graft (page 87), cutting a 

 cross obliquely and making another cut right straight down with 

 the grain in the scion. Then, instead of cutting the stock completely 

 across like the scion, just simply make a little cut on the side. Do 

 not cut into the pith of the wood at all. Then, place the two 

 together by pushing the tongue of the scion (made by the cut on 

 its shorter side) into the lip cut in the stock; tie with a string, and 

 wax over. The same method on larger trees is performed exactly 

 in the same way, except that the lip of course on the larger limbs, 

 which are three or four inches through, would be considerably 

 larger, and the scion instead of being placed directly in the middle 

 of the lip, or in the center, would be placed on the side so as to have 



Split Grafting the Walnut by Mr. Geo. Payne, of Santa Clara. 



