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PEACTICAL FOKESTET. 



Evergreen trees that do not belong to the coniferaa, 

 can also be grafted quite successfully in the same -way, 

 in fact, usually are given the same or similar treatment. 

 The cions may be one to three inches long of even longer 

 in some instances, varying according to the species prop- 

 agated. Of course, in grafting conifers the stock and 

 cion must be of near allied species, the pines may 



be worked on pines, 

 spruce on spmce, etc. 

 It is always advisable 

 to select a strong 

 and vigorous growing 

 species as a stock for 

 a weaker one. What 

 is called terminal 

 grafting is sometimes 

 practised quite suc- 

 cessfully, and in fig. 

 15 is shown a cion of 

 pine prepared for in- 

 serting in a stock, 

 and in fig. 16, the 

 same is shown in 

 place, and fastened 

 by a narrow ligature. 

 The leaves at the 

 point where the cleft 

 is made in the stock 

 are wholly removed, while a few below are shortened to 

 allow of applying the ligature as well as inserting the graft. 

 Another mode of terminal grafting as sometimes em- 

 ployed on the balsam fir, is shown in fig. 17, the cleft 

 being made in the end of a shoot, dividing the terminal 

 buds, and the cion inserted between as shown. 



The deciduous conifers, like the larch, taxodiums, salis- 

 bnria, etc., may be multiplied quite rapidly by grafting 



Fig. 17.— TEEMINAL GBAFT. 



