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ginning at the base of scion left and emerging at side of stock 

 3 or 4 inches below. If the cleft has not closed it should be 

 rewaxed. No rewaxing will be necessary if the notch, or 

 Coburn method, has been used. 



Fig. 2. — Coburn grafting: a, the prepared stock; b-c, prepared 

 acion, showing method of cutting the tongue; b, viewed from 

 side that goes outward in finished graft; c, viewed from 

 side showing the sloping cut necessary to fit the sloping 

 notch. 



Root Grafting. 



Root grafting is one of the common methods of propagating 

 apple and pear trees. The stocks used for standard apple 

 trees are one-year seedling trees, or, lacking these, the small roots, 

 one-quarter inch in diameter, of young trees may be used. Pear 

 seedlings are the stock used for propagating standard pear trees. 



The stocks should be procured in the autumn and stored in 

 moist sand in a frostproof cellar. The scions, also, may be cut 

 in late autumn and early winter, tied in bundles and stored 

 with the stocks, or they may be cut from the trees in early 

 spring at the time the grafting is to be done. 



