VI. 



PLANTING. 



two modes of grafting 1 , namely, tongue-grafting, and cleft- 

 grafting. These two it is necessary for me to speak of 

 separately, and thoroughly to describe, for they are not 

 both of them applicable in all cases, the former being used 

 in grafting on small sized stocks, and small branches of 

 trees, and the latter on large stocks and large branches. 



209. Tongue grafting. Suppose you to have your stock 

 of the proper age for grafting (and for all about which, 

 see above, the article on Stocks), you cut it off at three 

 or four inches from the ground, and with a very sharp, 

 straight and narrow-bladed grafting-knife, cut a thin strip 

 of wood and bark upward from about two inches below 

 the top of your already-shortened stock. Make this cut 

 at one pull of the knife, inserting the edge rather hori- 

 zontally, and, when it has gone through the bark and 

 jnto the wood a little short of the middle, pull straight 

 upwards (plate 3. Jig. 1. a 6). 



PLATE 3. 



FIG. 1. FIG. 2. FIG. 3. 



FIG. 4. FIG. 5. 



