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fitted to a stock, and then all held in place by liga- 

 tures of waxed cloth, and the top of the stock also covered 

 ■with wax. This mode of grafting is practised on very 

 lai-ge stocks such as arc not suitable for cleft grafting. 



Side or Triangular Grafting. — This is a modification 

 of cleft or crown crafting, and instead of splitting the 



Fig. 13.— TEIANGDLAK GRAFT. 



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Fig. 11— SPLICE OB 

 TONGUE GBAFTING. 



stock, a triangular incision is made in the side of the 

 stock, as shown in fig. 13, r, and the cion cut in the same 

 form and fitted into the cleft as shown. 



Splice or Tongue Grafting. — When the stock and cion 

 are nearly of the same size, splice grafting is the most 

 convenient and certain method known. The stock is cut 

 off with an upward slope, and a small cleft or split is 

 made in it, about midway on the slope, forming a tongue. 

 The cion is cut in the same way, but with a downward 

 slope, with a corresponding tongue, and the two are then 



