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smaller than the stock, has been described by the 

 same great gardener. This {fig. 28) is practised 

 upon small stocks almost exclusively in Here- 

 fordshire; but it is never attempted till the usual 

 season of grafting is past, and till the bark is rea- 

 dily detached from the alburnum. The head of 

 the stock is then taken off, by a single stroke of 

 the knife, obliquely, so that the incision commences 

 about the width of the diameter of the stock below 

 the point where the medulla appears in the section, 

 and ends as much above it, upon the opposite side. 

 The scion, or graft, which should not exceed in dia- 

 meter half that of the stock, is then to be divided 

 longitudinally, about two inches upwards from its 

 lower end, into two unequal divisions, by passing the 

 knife upwards, just in contact with one side of the 

 medulla. The stronger division of the graft is then 

 to be pared thin at its lower extremity, and intro- 

 duced, as in crown-grafting, between the bark and 

 wood of the stock ; and the more slender division is 

 fitted to the stock upon the opposite side. The graft, 

 consequently, stands astride the stock, to which it 

 attaches itself firmly upon each side, and which 

 it covers completely in a single season. Grafts of 

 the Apple and Pear rarely ever fail in this method 

 of grafting, which may be practised with equal success 

 with young wood in July, as soon as it has become 

 moderately firm and mature.* 



* A very neat and satisfactory mode of propagating fruit trees 

 when large stocks are not at hand, is to take small pieces of the 

 roots of the proper kinds of stocks and graft the scions on thes* 



