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stock, it should be drawn to one side of the cut, so that the 

 bark of both stock and scion may coincide on one side at 

 least. In the next page we give another form of English 

 grafting, which we think should be called the thunderbolt 

 method. Presenting great solidity of plan, it affords a double 

 security in the two slanting notches of the scion (A) and of 

 the stock (B) both finally united at C. The bud (at d) on the 

 back of the scion has been properly left opposite the notch. 



Its object is to attract the flow of the sap to the graft. We 

 may here mention the old-fashioned system of "whip- 

 grafting," employed in England in the case of some 

 kinds of trees in preference to budding, on account of the 

 inclemency of the climate. The stock is headed down and 

 cut on one side only to receive the scion, which is cut with a 

 long splice-cut and partially cleft or notched; the graft ia 



