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the stock and the scion are in a growing condition, so that 

 the bark will run freely ; care also must be exercised to 

 avoid injuring the eye of the bud, in peeling off the ring. 

 A modification of bark grafting may be applied mth great 

 advantage, however, to an old tree, that has met with 

 an injury to a portion of its bark. Tlie injured part, 

 should be pared smoothly to the sound bark and wood.. 

 This may be done with a sloping cut, or. 

 the edge may be made abrupt and, 

 square with a chisel and mallet ; a piece 

 of fresh wood and bark is then to be 

 cut from a'Lealthy tree and fitted pre- 

 cisely to the fresh wound, and secured 

 in its place with bandages, and graft- 

 ing clay or wax is then ap^ed, thus 

 making what the surgeons would call a 

 sort of taliacotian operation. Instead 

 of a single piece of wood and bark, a 

 number of young shoots may be used 

 to make the communication confplete; 

 these are set close together and secured 

 '" in the usual manner ; see fig. 15. 



^. ,_ Re-geafting Old Oechaeds. — Old 



Fli;. 15. — BARK GBAPT- 



iNo, TO REPAiis AN OTchards of inferior fruit may be entire- 

 iNjuuED TREE. jy rc-madc and re-formed by graft- 

 ing the limbs with such varieties as we may desire. A 

 new life is by this process often infused into the trees, 

 wliich is due to the very severe pruning which the trees 

 then receive ; they are consequently soon covered with a 

 vigorous growth of young healthy wood, wliich replaces 

 the decrepid and often decaying spray that accumulates 

 in an old orchard, and the fruit produced for several 



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