CHAPTER XXXVIII 



GRAFTING 

 {Continued) 



Til HERE are three principal kinds of grafting, 

 X namely : grafting by approach (also called sim- 

 ply 'approaching' or 'inarching'), grafting by shoots 

 or scions, and grafting by buds (commonly known 

 as 'budding'). The form given to the two cut ends 

 that are brought together and the disposition of the 

 parts thus placed in contact give rise, in practice, to 

 numerous subdivisions that need not be mentioned 

 here. We will confine ourselves to the essentials. 



"Grafting by approach is analagous to layering, 

 with this difference, that the tree to be grafted takes 

 the place of the soil that receives the layer. In lay- 

 ering we induce the growth of adventitious roots by 

 partly burying in the ground a branch or shoot still 

 adhering to the stock that nourishes it. When, acted 

 upon by the soil, roots have started in sufficient num- 

 ber, the shoot is gradually cut loose until at last it 

 is quite severed from the parent stock. In grafting 

 by approach it is also proposed to make a branch, 

 a shoot, a tree-top, while still united to its own stem 

 or stock, take root, so to speak, not in the ground, 

 but in the substance of a neighboring tree. 



"Let us suppose that two shrubs are growing 



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