CHAPTER VI 

 PROPAGATION BY MEANS OF BUDDING AND GRAFTING 



THE vegetative parts of plants may be severed and inserted 

 in earth or water for the making of new plants. Under cer- 

 tain conditions, severed parts may be inserted in other plants 

 with the intention of making new plants : this process is 

 known broadly as grafting. The part removed from the 

 parent and inserted in the foster parent is the cion (or scion). 

 If the cion is only a bud with a bit of bark and wood attached, 

 the operation of inserting it is usually spoken of as budding, 

 and the term grafting is restricted to the use of a cion consist- 

 ing of a piece of twig bearing two or more buds ; yet the opera- 

 tion is all grafting, independently of the make of the cion. 

 Budding is really only one of the forms of grafting. What is 

 known as the graft is the completed work, the cion set in its 

 new plant; but sometimes the word graft is used in the sense 

 of cion. The plant or part in which the cion is set is the stock. 

 The whole subject of grafting, comprising the knowledge and 

 discussion that goes with it, is known as graftage. While all 

 plants can probably be grafted, in practice the operation is 

 confined mostly to trees and shrubs. 



1. GRAFTAGE IN GENERAL 



The reasons for grafting are two : (1) To keep or perpetuate 

 a variety true to name, which is not accomplished by seed- 

 propagation. Thus, if one would grow the Elberta peach one 

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