Grafting 



base of a wall with a northern aspect, where 

 they remain stationary, while the stocks are 

 growing and producing their sap. 



Suppose that there is a poor pear tree in 

 our garden, either grown from seed or brought 

 from its native wood, and that we wish to 

 make it produce good pears. The method 

 to be adopted is as follows. The head of the 

 wildling is cut clean off, and the surface of 

 the section is made perfectly even with the 

 pruning-knife, removing any laceration which, 

 being slow to heal, might become a centre oi 

 decay. If the stem is small and is only to 

 receive one graft, the section is slightly 

 oblique and a small horizontal notch is cut 

 on the upper edge. Through this horizontal 

 notch the stem is split to a depth of three or 

 four inches. Then one of the branches, which 

 has been pruned in the way mentioned above, 

 is taken and cut back to two or three shoots, 

 the highest of which is to be the end of the 

 branch. Starting from the lowest shoot, the 

 branch is cut in the shape of the blade of a 

 knife, of which the thickest part on the back 

 is occupied by this same shoot. Then the 

 graft is placed in the crevice in the stock, 

 care being taken to apply the bark to the 

 bark, and the wood to the wood. The whole 



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