VENEER AND SIDE-GRAFTS. 



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and growing cions are used. All plants in full sap must be 

 placed under a frame in the house, in 

 which they can be almost entirely buried 

 with sphagnum, not too wet, and the 

 house must be kept cool and rather moist 

 until the cions are well established. 

 Some species can be transferred to 

 the open border or to nursery rows 

 in the spring, but most plants 

 which are grafted in this way are 

 handled in pots during the follow- 

 -^ing season. Rhododendrons, Ja- 

 panese maples and many conilers 

 are some of the plants which are multi- 

 plied by veneer-grafting. .Such plants 

 are usually laid upon their sides in 

 ^^ fi'ames (Fig 47) and covered with moss 

 tor several days, or until 

 healing begins to take 

 place. This method, when 

 used with hardy or tender 

 |)Iants, gives a great ad- 

 vantage in much experi- 



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mental work, because the stock is no 

 at all injured by a failure, and can be 

 used over again many times, perhaps 

 even in the same season ; and the n - 

 nipulation is simple, and easily acquireu 

 by inexperienced hands. 



Side-grafting. — There are various 

 methods of inserting a cion into the 

 side of a stock without cutting off the 

 stock. One of the best styles is shown 

 in Fig. 113. The example upon the 

 right shows the cion set into an oblique 

 cut in tlie stock, and that upon the left 



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