GRAFTING A2sD BUDDING. 



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When the fruit has come on the branchlet a feeding scion may 

 be inarched npon the branchlet, in addition to the scion on 

 the fruit-stalk. We have tried this with success. With 

 fruits which have too short or too slender stalks, like the apple 

 or peach, we must confine ourselves to grafting by ordinary 

 approach, or inarching the herbaceous branch on the fruiting 



Grafting to increase the size of the Peach. 



branch as near as possible to where the fruit of the branch will 

 grow. The bandages should be tied so as to be easily opened 

 without cutting them. 



GRAFTING WITH DETACHED SCIONS. 



General Directions. 

 The stock is a perfect plant, or almost so, for we sometimes 

 use a branch- cutting or a piece of a root. It is grown either 

 where it is to remain or in the nursery, or else it may be 

 grown in a pot in order to be grafted under glass, with the air 

 partially excluded. Perfect stocks are usually grafted where 

 they are intended to remain ; sometimes in the case of graftings 

 made during the repose of the sap, the stocks are taken up 



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