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same form and fitted into the cleft, as seen in the right- 

 hand figure. An implement, called a cleft-cutter, figure 



Fig. 83. — TKliNGULAK CBOWN QEATTINS. 



83, is sometimes used for making the incision in the 

 stock ; hut it is not indispensable, as the cleft can be 

 made almost as readily with a good, sharp knife. The 



cions are, as is usual in such methods of grafting, held 

 in position by ligatures of waxed cloth. 



Side Crown Grafting. — This mode of grafting is 

 employed principally on large stocks and at the collar or 

 crown above the main roots, and with species that can,- 

 not be readily divided or split to receive the cion, as in 

 the ordinary cleft grafting. Sometimes the wood at this 

 point is gnarled and so cross-grained that a smooth cleft 

 cannot be made with a knife, and with such the side 



