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velops. A rush, a slender thong made of a long and 

 flexible grass-blade, or, better still, a piece of woolen 

 yarn is well suited to the purpose. But if despite 

 all precautions the ligature should after a while 

 prove too tight on account of the swelling of the 

 graft, it would be necessary to loosen it without de- 

 lay. As soon as the graft has 'taken,' as we say, 

 the young shoots starting out on the stock are grad- 

 ually suppressed in the cautious manner prescribed 

 for cleft-grafting. 



"When the stock is too small to receive a bud in 

 the usual manner, the following expedient is resorted 

 to. From a shoot of about the same size as the 

 stock a rectangular strip of bark with bud attached 

 is cut with four incisions of the grafting-knife. This 

 strip is immediately laid upon the stock to serve 

 as a pattern while the point of the knife is passed 

 all around it. In this way there is cut from the 

 stock a strip of bark having exactly the same shape 

 and size as the pattern, which latter is thereupon 

 inserted in the vacant place and made fast there by 

 a ligature. This process may not inappropriately 

 be called veneering. 



"In flute-grafting the bark both above and below 

 the bud is cut transversely all around the stem, and 

 then another cut is made lengthwise between these 

 two slashes. A cylinder of bark may thus be peeled 

 off in one piece. From the stock, which should 

 match this cylinder in size, a similar cylinder is 

 removed and its place taken by the other one bear- 

 ing the bud we wish to transplant. ' ' 



