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(F) attached by their bases. When the scion is quite 

 prepared, these are turned down, and the scion is at 

 once placed on (at E). The strips of bark are then brought 

 up over it (as at Gr) and the whole bound round with a bandage. 

 This process permits us to detach the scion without leaving 

 the wound on the stock too long open, and also to prepare the 

 stock before the scion has had time to flag. These strips also 

 serve to cover bare places that occur when the scions are not 

 wide enough. We practise a mode of flute-grafting with double 

 strips. In this the stock is amputated, and both stock and 

 scion are of the same diameter. The bark of both is cut in 

 strips and turned back, and the wood that was under the strips 

 of either stock or scion is cut away. The scion and stock are 

 then placed end to end, and the strips of bark brought back 

 over each and bandaged. This method is quite original. 



Treatment after Flute-Grafting. 

 As in every kind of grafting, the bandaging must be 

 looked after, and not allowed to become too tight, and 

 a prop or stake higher than the graft must be afflxed. 

 If the head of the stock is overloaded with branches, 

 some of them must be cut away. The manner in which 

 the stock is finally headed down depends on the nature of the 

 graft : if it has been made with a pushing bud, the stock is cut 

 away by degrees down to four inches from the graft — not 

 commencing to do so, however, until the union of the parts is 

 ascertained ; if the grafting has taken place in the course of 

 the summer, the heading down of the stock is deferred until 

 the following spring, when it is performed by a single cutting 



Complement aey Operations of Grafting. — In describing 

 the various modes of grafting, we have briefly indicated the 

 most important courses of after treatment to be pursued in 



