PROPAGATION. 



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the stock and the scion are in a growing condition, so that 

 the bark will run freely ; care also must be exercised to 

 avoid injuring the eye of the bud, in peeling off the ring. 

 A modification of bark grafting may be applied with great 

 advantage, however, to an old tree, that has met with 

 an injury to a portion of its bark. The injured part, 

 should be pared smoothly to the sound bark and wood.. 

 This may be done with a sloping cut, or, 

 the edge may be made abrupt and, 

 square with a chisel and mallet ; a piece 

 of fresh wood and bark is then to be 

 cut from a healthy tree and fitted pre- 

 cisely to the fresh wound, and secured 

 in its place with bandages, and % graft- 

 ing clay or wax is then applied, thus 

 making what the surgeons would call a 

 sort of taliacotian operation. Instead 

 of a single piece of wood and bark, a 

 number of young shoots may be used 

 to make the communication complete; 

 these are set close together and secured 

 in the usual manner ; see fig. 15. 



RE-GRAFTING OLD ORCHARDS. Old 



iy. 15. BARK GRAFT- 

 ING, TO REPAIR AN orchards of inferior fruit may be entire- 

 JNJURED TREE. ] v re . m ade and re-formed by graft- 

 ing the limbs with such varieties as we may desire. A 

 new life is by this process often infused into the trees, 

 which is due to the very severe pruning which the trees 

 then receive ; they are consequently soon covered with a 

 vigorous growth of young healthy wood, which replaces 

 the decrepid and often decaying spray that accumulates 

 in an old orchard, and the fruit produced for several 



