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exceedingly short branch or eren a simple fruit -bud. It 

 should be cut off with a strip of bark and alburnum B (p. 130) an 

 inch or two in length attached. Care should be taken not to 

 remove the woody part at the base ; it should be merely 

 smoothed down so as to ensure its cohesion ; it is then inserted 

 (at C) into the T incision in the stock (A). It should be 

 bandaged rather tightly throughout, and the points of junction 

 covered with clay, mastic, or the leaf of a tree, should any 

 part of the tissues remain exposed. The bandage should not 



Result of grafting with a fruit-bud. 



be removed before the fruit has set in the beginning of the 

 following summer. Should there be any fruiting- spurs ready 

 for grafting when the sap is not very abundant, it will be best 

 to employ cleft-grafting, inlaying, or crown-grafting. On 

 shoots and simple but vigorous branches success is mora 

 certain in autumn than in spring, but the best time is from 

 July to September with side -grafting under the bark. The 

 process of veneering with strips might also be advantageously 



