GRAFTING AND EUDDIN'G. 



precaution, we should employ a stake or pole of a length 

 proportioned to the probable development of the shoots. It 

 is very possible that the bandage may become too tight, 

 for, as the parts are of the same diameter, the stock will 

 be a young and consequently a vigorous subject. Should 

 this occur, the bandage must be untied, and not cut, as 

 there is danger of the knife penetrating the joining of 

 the graft. 



Group VI. — Mixed Grafting. 

 "We give this name to those modes of grafting which, without 

 having any determinate character, resemble other methods 

 either in the manner of preparing the scion, or uniting it with 

 the stock. Such are cutting-grafting, layer-grafting, root- 

 grafting, and grafting with fruit -buds. 



Cutting-G raft Ing. 

 In order to propagate various kinds of trees or shrubs, 

 which succeed as cuttings, and not so well when grafted in 

 the ordinary way, we have recourse to a mixed process, the 

 base of which is the employment of a scion or a stock in 

 the condition of a cutting. The new roots which spring 

 from the cutting strengthen the graft by supplying it with 

 additional vital elements. It is, so to speak, half grafting 

 by approach, and often a case of root-grafting. Sometimes the 

 scion is the cutting and sometimes the stock, and occasionally 

 both are cuttings united by grafting. Adepts in. grafting, 

 they say, should succeed in grafting a scion of orange-tree on 

 the midrib of a leaf of a citron-tree which has been newly 

 slipped ! 



Grafting with a Cutting for the Scion. 

 In this method the scion only is a cutting, the stock is a 

 \ tree which has been at least a year planted. It may be left 



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