THE ART OP 



When the scion is a cutting. 

 "When the stock is a cutting. 

 When both are cuttings. 



Boot-Grafting. 

 01 a plant on its own root. 



„ on the root of another plant, 

 (drafting with fruit-buds. 



Bud- Grafting (Budding). 

 Group 1. — Grafting with shield-buds. 



Bud-grafting under the bark, or by inoculation. 



„ ordinary method. 



„ with a cross-shaped incision. 



„ with the incision reversed. 



„ by veneering. 



„ the combined or double method. 

 Group 2. — Flute-grafting. 



„ common method. 



„ with strips of bark. 



GRAFTING BY APPROACH, 



GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS. 



Grafting by approach is the most ancient of all the methods 

 of grafting. From time immemorial nature has given 

 examples of it in our forests, hedges, arbours, &c, where we 

 find trees joined together by their branches, stems, or roots, 

 from long-continued contact or rubbing. Grafting by approach 

 then, consists in uniting two trees by their stems or branches, 

 In certain cases, the shoot of a tree or plant is thus grafted 

 on the parent stem or branch. The season for grafting by 

 approach commences and ends with the flow of the sap, from 

 March to September. The stock and the scion may be in the 

 woody or the herbaceous state, the mode of operation being the 



