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AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



grafts of four or six buds each in length. These are usually 

 carried in a pouch, or bag, or apron tucked up by the comers, 

 worn for this purpose irhile grafting, which, when two knives 

 are used, serves also to carry the one while the other is in the 

 hand. 



Scions, or gi-afts in their proper lengths, as above, may be 

 cut at any time from late fall through winter, and kept for 

 weeks, or even months, simply wrapped in paper ; or if sealed 

 at the ends with shellac or collodion, and the wrapper also 

 made air-tight, so much the better, pai'ticularly if it is intend- 

 ed to transport them thi-ough warm latitudes. 



They may also be sent by mail with the greatest ease, and 

 if used as single-bud gi-afts (see next figm-e), each graft will 

 fm-nish at least enough for four stocks. 



MODES OP GRAFTING. 



As Imdding is the planting of a bud cutting, so, in general, 

 grafting is the planting of a branch cutting, the most marked 

 distinction between them being that the bud scion is the 

 growth of the cm-rent season, the graft 

 scion of the season previous, and sin- 

 gle-bud grafting links the two processes. 



SINGLE-BUD GRAFTING. 



Single-bud grafting may be prac- 

 ticed with entire success by insertino- 

 buds from carefully-preserved graft sci- 

 ons, in the manner directed for bud- 

 ding, page 222, as early in the spring 

 as the bark of the stock is formd to ran, 

 in which case, however, the stock is cut 

 down at once in one or other of the 

 modes directed for budded stocks, page 

 224, figm-es 107 c, e, and all natmTil 

 growth kept off, so as to force an imme- 

 diate gi'owth from the bud-graft. It 



a. The stock headed down, 

 with the graft bud inserted. 

 h. The stock headed doiyn 



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 c. The imd-gi-ait. mus by heading down the stock as for 



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