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GRAFTING UNDER THE BARK. 



This is a very simple operation, and is performed just as the 

 sap begins to rise in the stocks. Young peach, plum, and pear 

 seedlings put forth quite early and are grafted at any time after 

 the leaves begin to grow, by the following method : 



The stocks are sawn off, and with a knife a vertical incision is 

 made on one side of the stock, the same as for a bud. The graft is 

 then prepared by simply facing on one side, as shown in Fig. 1 at 

 c. It is then inserted in the slit, in the manner that buds are 

 inserted, and is then tied and waxed over. For tying, waxed cloth 

 is greatly preferred, as it serves for both purposes that of tying 

 and waxing in one operation. 



CROWN GRAFTING. 



Trees, and especially citrus trees, are afj times killed to the 

 ground by the disease of gumming or are cut back by severe frost, and 

 whenever the roots are healthy and well established there will be a 

 great saving of time, instead of rooting up and replacing the tree, 

 to cut it down below the surface of the ground to where the 

 wood is sound and cleft grafting it, or, perhaps, better still, crown 

 grafting it. 



Crown Grafting- old orange stock (H. J. Webber). 



For this purpose scions are procured of mature wood from a 

 thriving tree of the kind wanted, cut five to six inches long and 

 sharpened into a long, slanting cut, as shown on the fig. These 



