GRAFTING AXD BUDDING. 



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Be-planting. 



Should the new tree not find in the place where it has been 

 grafted a sufficient supply of nutritive elements, it should, in 

 almost every instance, be taken up and transplanted into 

 another place, either in the nursery or where it is intended to 

 stand permanently. It is better not to remove it until it has 

 grown at least a year from the time of its detachment from 

 the parent. It will thus have become inured to exist on its 

 own resources, and will not have been subjected to several 

 severe operations in quick succession. Should the separation 

 have produced any deviation from the desired direction of 

 growth in the grafted tree, a stake or prop should be used, 

 which will keep in a straight line both the stock and the 

 graft at the same time. A few longitudinal incisions on the 

 elbows or curved parts aid the dilatation of the tissues, the free 

 circulation of the sap, and the straightening of the stem ; but 

 trees newly transplanted should not be thus cut. 



Propagation by Approach- Grafting. 

 In all cases it is best to have the scion and stock in close 

 proximity to each other, as the work of grafting is thereby 

 simplified. In well-kept nurseries, the parent-trees are 

 planted in positions where grafting by approach is intended to 

 be carried on, either before the stocks are planted, or at the 

 same- time. Should parent-trees and stocks, which are strong 

 enough to be grafted at once, be planted, they should not be 

 operated upon for at least a year. They will thus be better 

 rooted, and the union of the graft will be more certain. 

 Those parent-trees and stocks are selected which may be 

 grafted with success, and are trained in a tall or branching 

 form, in order to facilitate their junction at the time of 

 grafting. The same parent may furnish scions to several 

 stocks at the same or different times. The illustration exhibits 



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