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place where the cleft is to be made, and in the same 

 direction it may b*^ expected to run; when the 

 rest of the operation may be as easily performed 

 as on other trees. 



Whip-grafting is performed by cutting off the 

 head of the stock sloping; then mailing a notch ir; 

 the slope, from the upper part downward, a little 

 more than half an inch deep, to recieve the scion, 

 which must be cut with a slope upward, and a 

 slit made in this like a tongue, which is to be in- 

 serted into a slit made in a slope of the stock; and 

 the scion is then set in, so tha* the rinds of each 

 join exactly together. The scion is then fastened 

 by a ligature to keep it steady, and then surroun- 

 ded wirh mortar, or the plaster, as before. 



Gratling in the rind is performed by cutting off 

 the stock square; slitting down the bark a small 

 distance, and raising it up, so that the end of the 

 scion may be inserted between it and the wood: 

 the scion is made with a shoulder, cut in about 

 half its thickness, and the other half is sloped off 

 gradually, so as to give it the form of a wedge; 

 tfie cut side being Hat and the bark-side being un- 

 touched. This wedge or tongue is inserted und^r 

 the bark, with the shoulder fitted to the stock; 

 the raised bark is then pressed close and bound 

 round, and the plaster is applied, as before men- 

 tioned. It is usual, in this case, to insert three or 

 four scions in one stock. 



Mr. Preston, of Pennsylvania, says he haa 

 grafted scions which came from Holland, which 

 were apparently dried, and they grew; but that 

 he failed in other instances, where the bark of the 

 scions appeared to have become yomewhat rotten. 



Ue was also successful in grafting scieos of the 



