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PROPAGATION. 



lower corners being hooked fast to two sharp nails on the 

 near edge of the table, for holding the scions while cutting 

 them ; fourth, strips of waxed paper, about an inch wide, 

 made by brushing over sheets of thin, tough paper a melted 



well-stirred mixture of four parts of rosin, two of tallow, and 

 one of beeswax, and then cut into strips when precisely at a 

 proper degree of coldness to separate well by means of a 

 knife cutting upon a smooth board. A sufficient number of 



FIG. 59. 



these for immediate use should be hung near enough to the 

 •^tove which heats the room, to keep the wax upon them about 

 >he consistence of butter on a summer day, so as to fit and ad- 

 here to the grafted root, without melting and running. 



Fig. 60. 



The first operation is to cut up the grafts from the shoots or 

 scions. It is performed by holding the scion in the left hand, 

 the thicker end pointing toward the right hand, which holds 

 the knife. Such a shoot is represented of diminished size by 



Fig. 61. 



Fig- 5S' the points, a, a, a, the places where it is cut into 

 grafts, and the dotted lines show how the cuts are made. 

 Fig. 56 shows a portion of the shoot the natural size; i, 

 the first cut nearly directly across; 2, the second or sloping 



