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AMERICAN POMOLOGY. 



US that we may graft the peach, upon the Willow and But- 

 tonwood, and form other equally impossible unions. 



The different methods of performing the operation of 

 griifting vary with the character and size, and 

 condition of the -stocks to be worked ; thus we 

 have splice grafting, whip, cleft, saddle, and side 

 grafting with modifications, and also grafting 

 by approach, which is generally called inarching 

 — though sometimes also practiced where we 

 desire to renew the roots of a tree that are un- 

 healthy, or to restore those 

 that have been removed by 

 accident or by the erosion 

 of some rodent animals. 



Splice Gkaptikg is the 

 simplest process, and is appli- 

 cable only where the size of 

 the stock and of the scion cor- 

 respond pretty nearly ; the ^'S- '''• 

 two are cut with a sloping curve, each 

 of which being made at the same angle, 

 will coincide with the other when they 

 are applied together, as represented 

 in the engraving, fig. 7. 



Whip Grafting is a modification of 

 the above. Each portion is cut in a slop- 

 ing manner as in the splice grafting, but 

 each is also split with a thin-bladed knife, as represented 

 in fig. 8. The object in this is to give a firmer union 

 to the two portions, and also to present a more extended 

 surface for the effusion of the new cell tissue that is to 



Fig. 8.— WHIP GRAFT 

 ING. 



