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care, therefore, should be used to prevent it 

 from being displaced. The hole should be 

 filled up very carefully, and without pressing 

 the soil against the graft. It should be well 

 protected from disturbance of any kind. About 

 a foot from the plant put in sticks at such an 

 angle that their ends will meet over the plant, 

 and about a foot above it ; tie the ends together, 

 and over the sticks put a piece of oiled paper, 

 muslin, or matting. If done right, it will look 

 like a miniature tent, and protect the young 

 plant from sunshine and weather as well as ani- 

 mals. It should be removed when the plant 

 has got fairly started. If the graft is inserted 

 in the fall, it will be well protected by heaping 

 sand over it in addition to the above. 



In the next method the grafting is also done 

 under the surface. The cut, however, is less 

 simple, but may be understood by examining 

 Fig. 112. The graft is first cut square off at the 



Pig 112. 



bottom. A thin chip is then pared from one 

 side to the bottom, <?, and the knife next entered 

 at the edge of the bottom, and drawn up, so as 

 to cut a thin tongue where the chip was taken 



