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from that month on up to the first of May, and have met with 

 the best success with the grafts put in in the month above 

 stated. The cions should be cut when the grafting is to be 

 done, and nothing smaller than a cion the size of a lead pencil 

 should be used. In grafting over large trees we use the cleft 



Prepared cion and stock of 

 an indoor graft. 



Indoor graft, showing Cion of indoor graft in- 

 growth, serted in stock ready 

 to be tied. 



graft. Great care should be taken in waxing, and, in addition 

 to the liquid wax, which should be carefully spread over the 

 top of the branch which has been worked, and around the side 

 where the split has been made, thin cloth should be wrapped 

 carefully around the top, as well as around the branch where 



