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the walnut-tree, the scion is cut obliquely, and the stock is also 

 cleft obliquely, as we have explained under the head of oblique 

 cleft-grafting. If it is desired to avoid cutting the pith of the 

 scion, the bark on two sides may be pared off, and the scion 

 then inserted into the stock, which has been prepared to 

 receive it by the process of inlaying. A scion of two years' 

 growth will prove sufficiently hardy. The magnolia is grafted 



Vine-Grafting near the root. 



by inlaying on the neck of the root in July or August. The 

 subjects grafted are placed under a frame for a month, then 

 repotted and removed to the north side of a wall or other 

 shelter. The vine, of which we have already spoken under the 

 head of cutting-grafting, can also be grafted by this method as 

 well as in the English fashion, on the neck of the root before 



