PEOPAGATIOSr BY GBAFTIKG. 



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B, cleft in same ; D, cion ; F, leaf on cion ; F F, leaves 

 on ptock. In grafting herbaceous plants and vines in the 

 open air, heavy shading and frequent applications of water 

 to the foliage are usually required to ensure success. 



Geafting by Appboach. — This method is practised 

 both in the open air and under glass, as all that is re- 

 quired is to have the stock and the plant that is to fur- 

 nish the cion in sufficient close proximity to admit of the 

 branches being brought together. A thin slice of bark 

 and alburnum, two or more inches long, is removed from 

 each, and the exposed 

 wounds brought together 

 and held lirmly in place 

 with a Hgature of waxed 

 cloth or bass ; but if the 

 latter is employed, it 

 should be covered with 

 wax if in the open air. 



Ikabching . — This 

 method differs from the 

 last only in the manner of 

 manipulation. To graft 

 trees by inarching or ap- 

 proach, they must neces- 

 sarily stand so near to- 

 gether that their stems or branches can be united with 

 out separation from the parent stock. Incisions are us- 

 ually made similar to those employed in tongue grafting. 

 The branches of different trees or of the same tree may 

 be inarched, and in this manner hedges and live fences 

 and screens may be formed with fruit or ornamental trees 

 and shrubs. Inarching is sometimes employed in propa- 

 gating rare species, instead of grafting in the ordinary 

 methods ; and after the union has been formed, the in- 

 arched branch is separated from the parent stem. In 

 former times this method of propagating trees that were 



Fig. 93.— SIDE GRAFTINS. 



