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grafted when tlieir sap &awB abundantly from small trial cuts made on 

 their stems. [To prevent bleeding they shotild be in leaf.] 



Cieft Grafting with Stock and Scion of equal size (Fig. LX.). — 

 This is applicable either to herbaceous or 'woody parts. The scion 

 should be cut wedge-shaped at the base ; the stock should be split 

 down the middle, and the two parts thinned, as in the figure, so that 

 the wedge-shaped part of the scion may coincide in every point. 



English Cleft Grafting, or Whip Grafting (Kg .LXL). — ^This we 

 do not generally employ, except for hard- wooded plants, with little sap 

 and small pith. Take a straight weU-grown shoot, and cut it to the 

 length of two or three eyes ; cut the base with a long slope opposite the 

 lower eye ; make a longitudinal slit in the face of the slope, so as to 

 form a tongue. Let a counterpart be made in a stock of the same size 

 as the scion ; introduce the tongues of each into the slits prepared for 

 them, and thus unite the whole. (See page 314, Fig. XL VIII.). 



Fig. LXI. 



Pig. LXII. 



Cleft Grafting in the Side of Shoots of the same size as the Scion 

 (Fig. LXII). — Whatever may be the nature of the scion, its base 

 should be cut in as lengthened a wedge-shape as circumstances will 

 permit. The place intended for it should be previously fixed upon, and 

 always in the fork of a small ramification of the young stem, or in the 



