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cleft grafting, and cutting a small slice fnjm tlic side an inch 

 or so below the top (Fig. 110 h), and setting the bud on as a 

 patch, fitting it with exactness, and binding it with care ; or, 

 the bud being cut out thick for the purpose, a small tongue 

 may be made in each, so that they may be more conveniently 

 bound together. In either mode, the after-treatment is pre- 

 cisely that directed for growing buds, page 225. 



SIDE GEAFTING. 



In SIDE GRAFTING a sllt Is made 

 as for budding, and the graft, being 

 cut from one side only into the form 

 of a tapering, half-round wedge, is 

 inserted and bomid ; or it is bomid 

 on to a sjDot in the stock from which 

 a slice of bark of corresponding size 

 has been cut, merely fitting it on, 

 as in single-bud patch grafting, or 

 tongueing it, as in tongue grafting, 

 but shorter, deferring the heading 

 down or shorteninrr of the stock mi- 



Fig, in. 



sSI^ 



til the graft knits, as in inarching. 

 Side grafting is used chiefly for 

 ornamental forest trees, upon which 

 it is supposed to succeed better than 

 other modes ; but it may be applied 

 to all kinds of trees, and will some- 

 times be found especially useful for balancing or giving sym 

 metry to a one-sided tree, replacing a lost branch, etc. 



a. 'i"he stock prepared, with a T, aa 

 in budding, to receive tlie graft. 



b. The graft, a tapering, balf- 

 ronnd wedge, ready for insertion. 



c. The graft inserted, and ready to 

 he bound and coyered. 



SADDLE GEAFTING. 



In SADDLE GRAFTING the stook is cut wodge form (Fig. 

 112 a), and the gi'aft, being first split up the necessary dis- 

 tance, is pared on the inside so as to form a cleft, of which 

 each prong or lip is a tapered half-roimd (Fig. 112 h) ; these 

 are neatly set across the stock at one side (Fig. 112 c), so that 

 the inner barks of graft and stock fit together to the very end 

 of the lips, and the whole is then carefully bound, as directed 



