182 SCILOOL AND HOME GARDENS 
GRAFTING 
Grafting wax. Use resin, four parts; beeswax, two 
parts; tallow. one part by weight. Break up the resin 
and beeswax and melt them with the tallow. When 
thoroughly melted, pour the liquid into a vessel of cold 
water. Ags soon as it becomes hard enough to handle, 
take it out and work it until it 
becomes tough. To keep the wax 
from sticking while working it. 
grease the hands with tallow. 
Waxed string may be prepared 
by putting a ball of No. 18 knit- 
° 
| ting cotton into a kettle of melted 
grafting wax. In five minutes 
with the wax and ready for use 
| it will be thoroughly saturated 
Fie. 101. Whip, or Tongue, ut any tine, 
Grafting Whip grafting. A sefon is a 
a, stock; b, scion; c, stock and 
scion united 
portion cut from one plant to be 
inserted upon another. It should 
be of the previous season’s growth. The stock is the 
portion of the plant upon which the scion is to be placed. 
One-year seedlings may be used for this purpose. They 
should be taken up in the fall and wrapped in damp 
moss and stored in a cool cellar. Make the graft by 
cutting the stock with one smooth diagonal cut about 
three fourths of an inch in length. Place the knife about 
one third of the distance from the end of the cut surface 
