SADDLE-GEAFTING. 



319 



where that cannot be, a second method, in which the scion 

 may be much smaller than the stock, has been described by 

 the same great gardener. This (Fig. L.) is practised upon 

 small stocks almost exclusively in Herefordshire; but it is 



Fig. L. 



never attempted till the usual season of grafting is past, and 

 tiU the bark is readily detached from the alburnum. The 

 head of the stock is then taken off, by a single stroke of the 

 knife, obliquely, so that the iucision commences about the 

 width of the diameter of the stock below the point where the 

 medulla appears in the section, and ends as much above it, 

 upon the opposite side. The scion, or^graSt, which should not 

 exceed in diameter half that of the stock, is then to be divided 

 longitudinally, about two inches upwards from its lower end, 

 into two unequal divisions, by passing the knife upwards, just 

 in contact with one side of the medulla. The stronger 

 division of the graft is then to be pared thin at its lower 

 extremity, and introduced, as in crown-grafting, between the 

 bark and wood of the stock ; and the more slender division is 

 fitted to the stock upon the opposite side. The graft, con- 



