Grafting 



with grafting wax. This method is termed 

 crown grafting, from the grafts crowning 

 the contour of the section. 



Shoot-grafting corresponds with that 

 method of propagation by cuttings that con- 

 sists in placing shoots separately in the 

 ground. It consists in transferring to the 

 stock a shoot with the fragment of bark to 

 which it is attached. If the grafting takes 

 place in spring, at the awakening of vege- 

 table life, the shoot inserted in the stock will 

 unite with it and develop immediately ; but 

 if it is postponed till July or August, the 

 time of the autumnal sap, it will remain 

 stationary during all the autumn and winter, 

 after becoming incorporated with the stock. 



The necessary implement is the grafting 

 knife, which has a very sharp blade on one 

 side and a short spatula of bone or hard 

 wood on the other. The first thing to be 

 done is to remove the shoot that is to be 

 transplanted. On a sap-bearing branch a 

 transverse cut is made with the grafting 

 knife above the shoot and below it, and then, 

 holding the knife in one hand and the branch 

 in the other, a piece of bark is removed 

 limited by the two cuts. This is called the 

 shield. The leaf growing at the axil of the 



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