GRAFTING AND BUDDING. 



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and September and October, just before it goes to rest. The 

 treatment after grafting is the same as that which we have 

 indicated in the case of ordinary crown- grafting. A grafter 

 in our establishment, Louis Asselin, invented this method, but 

 the process is so simple and reasonable that other practi- 

 tioners must have tried it before him. 



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Veneer Crown- Grafting. 



Veneering with Strips. 

 M. Trouillet, arboriculturist at Montreuil, communicated to 

 us this mode of grafting. It has some resemblance to " side- 

 grafting with a simple branch." We employ them both with 

 equal success in restoring trees which have lost their branches. 

 The proper seasons for operating by this method are in April 

 with a shooting bud, and in August with a dormant bud. 

 With the inetro-greffe we cut the scion, on its rounded face, in 

 a duck's-bill section. We measure the diameter of this, and 



