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large, it is better to have one on each side, and thus if one fails, the other 



may succeed. 



The stock should be smoothly cut across with the saw, and then split with 



the grafting chisel, the narrow pro- 

 jection on the back of which is used 

 to open the cleft for the insertion 

 of the graft. All the cuts are then 

 covered with grafting wax and the 

 work is complete. 



Grafting wax may be made in a 

 variety of ways, but in all the in- 

 gredients are resin, tallow or lin- 

 seed oil and beeswax, and it is 

 more or less expensive according to 

 thepropoftionof beeswax used. A 

 a b c very good recipe is one pint of lin- 



* '*'■ seed oil, one pound of beeswax and 



four pounds of resin. The resin and the beeswax should first be melted 



together, and the tallow or oil be 



added, when the whole should be well 



stirred up together. The mixture is 



then poured into cold water, and 



when cooled, worked by hand until 



ready for use. 



A very simple method of grafting 



has been most successfully practiced 



by the writer, at Maplehurst, during 



the past few years, which requires 



very little skill, few tools and no wax. 



An illustration showing it appeared 



in the Rural New Yorker, under the 



name of Crown Grafting, which engraving we 



have copied, because it shows the process so 



well that very little is needed in the way of 



description. One advantage of this method is 



that it may be used on limbs as large as six 



inches in diameter, and on trees of consider- 

 able age, for as the wood is not split the wound 



is the easier healed. 



In fig. 42 a, is shown the stock cut, and 



prepared for the insertion of the scion, the cut 



down the bark simply reaching through the 



wood. At b, is a scion, beveled on one side 



only, which is the side to go next the wood. At c 



Fig. 42. 



the scions are set, but 



