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crown graft may be employed. The stock is cut off level 

 ■with, or a little below tbe surface of the ground, as in fig- 

 ure 84. The cion, B, is severed to about two- thirds of 

 its diameter, and this portion removed, forming a 

 shoulder at G; the remaining part is pared smooth and 

 thin at the lower end. The stock having been cut off 

 at D, and the bark, ^, removed with a thin slice of wood. 



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Fig. 84.— SIDE CEOWN QRAPTING. 



to correspond with the lip of the cion, which is then 

 fitted to it, the shoulder of the cion resting upon the 

 top of the stock, or both may be notched, as shown in 

 figure 84. The cion and stock are then tied with bass 

 or waxed cloth and the soil drawn back over the head of 

 the stock covering the cion, except the terminal bud, A. 

 It often occurs that cions of rare varieties of ornamental 

 trees are obtained by persons who have no suitable stocks 



