GRAFT AGE HERBACEOUS-GRAFTING. 34I 



Graftage. The process or operation of grafting or budding, 

 or the state or condition of being grafted or budded. 

 [First used by the present author in 26th Report of the 

 State Board of Agriculture of Michigan, p. 433 (1887). 

 Equivalent to the French greffage.'\ See Chapter V. 



Grafting. The operation of inserting a cion in a. stock. It 

 is commonly restricted to the operation of inserting 

 cions of two or more buds, in distinction from budding, 

 or the operation of inserting a single bud in the stock ; 

 but there are no essential differences between the two 

 operations. See Chapter V. 



H-budding. Much like flute-budding (which see), except 

 that the bark which is loosened from the stock is left 

 attached in two flaps, secured at the upper and lower 

 ends, and these flaps are tied over the bud. Fig. 98. 



Heading-in. Cutting back or shortening the shoots or 

 branches of plants, in distinction to removing the branch 

 bodily at its point of union with the parent branch. 



Heel. A form of cutting of which the lower end comprises 



the very base of the shoot as it grew upon the parent 



branch. Fig. 60. 

 Heeling-in. The temporary covering of plants, or of their 



roots, in order to preserve or protect them until they are 



placed in permanent quarters. 



Herb. A plant which dies to the ground once a year, at the 

 approach of winter or of the inactive season. Used in 

 distinction to woody plants, like shrubs and trees. 

 Perennial herbs are those of which the tops or aerial 

 portions perish while the root lives on from year to 

 year, in distinction to an annual herb, which perishes 

 outright after one season of growth and flowering. 



Herbaceous-grafting. The grafting of soft, growing shoots ; 

 generally confined to the grafting of herbs, but the term 

 may be applied to the grafting of the growing shoots of 

 woody plants. Page 130. 



