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All of it is secured by a ligature of woolen thread & coated with wax or with rich soil 

 that's been moistened & pressed together. Setting of the graft on the stock is shown in o, 

 fig. 9, & in Y 9 fig. 10. This graft, which often occurs naturally in the woods where 

 branches are found grafted upon one another, is performed before or during the first run 

 of sap. 



It's not necessary to remove the bark; it's sufficient just to cut away the outer 

 cortical layers & to bring the phloems in contact with each other. Woody fibers penetrate 

 these phloems & join up at the point where they meet. 



2°. Figure 5. On one side of a branch C of a separate tree, a long slanting cut is 

 made, terminating at its upper end in a recessed indentation no deeper than half the 

 diameter of the branch. A slanting cut same size as the slant on the graft is also made on 

 the end of the stock D. The slanting surfaces are placed against one another as seen in a, 

 Fig. 9, so that the phloem layers make contact in at least several places. The whole is 

 secured & coated as in the preceding operation. 



3°. Figure 8. I cut the end of the stock V'm the shape of a wedge. On one side of 

 a branch Tof a separate tree, I cut a slit the same length from top to bottom as that of the 

 wedge. I insert the wedge into the cleft, seeing to it that the intermediate layer between 

 the bark & the wood of the stock matches up with that of the graft as in e, Fig. 9. 1 tie all 

 of it up & coat it as above. 



4°. Figure 6. A triangular notch is cut at the end of the stock Z,, the bottom of 

 which extends no farther than the center of the stock & its height from eight lignes [see 

 translator's note, p. 0053] to two inches, depending on the strength of the tree. One side of 

 a branch / of a separate tree is cut in a triangular shape & in the right size to fill the notch 

 cut in the stock. The two upper sides of its base end in recessed indentations. The one is 

 inserted into 



