PROPAGATION. 



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this kind of grafting, if the pressure be sufficiently firm, 

 and if the operation have been performed below the sur- 

 face of the ground, it may not be nec- 

 essary to make any other application 

 than to press the moist earth about the 

 parts, and cQver all but the top of the 

 graft with soil, and place a stick to in- 

 dicate the plant and protect it from in- 

 jury. If, on the contrary, the pressure 

 of the cleft be not sufficient to hold the 

 scion firmly, as in small stocks, the 

 graft must be tied. For this a piece of 

 bass matting, or cotton twine, may be 

 used; and if the operation has been 

 performed above ground, the whole 

 must "be covered 

 with grafting 



Fig. 11. SIDE GRAFT- 

 ING, wax, applied, ei- 

 ther hot with a brush, or cold, after 

 having been worked with the hands, 

 or by wrapping with strips of mus- 

 lin or paper previously spread with 

 the wax. In old times grafting 

 clay was used, and applied with the 

 hands as a lump around the junc- 

 tion ; but this disagreeable and 

 clumsy appliance has given way 

 to more elegant and convenient 

 a rra n O-PTTI pn t <? Fi - 13 - SIDE GRAFTING 



ntS ' THE STOCK NOT CUT BACK. 



SIDE GRAFTING is performed in two ways. In one it is 

 a modification of cleft grafting in which there is no cleft, 

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