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FRUIT TREES. 



being done, the parts must be brought together, and 

 maintained in their positions by means of bandages, 

 and covered with the grafting mastic. 



By the following year, at the time of the winter 

 pruning, the graft will have become firmly grown to 

 its subject, and may then be cut oflP immediately below 



Fig. 6.— English Method of Inarching or Grafting by Approach. 



its point of attachment. The lower part, F, fig. 3, after 

 trimming, will serve for one of the lateral branches 

 as before. 



English Method of Grafting Approach, or 

 Inarching (fig. 6). — Make, both upon the stock and 

 graft, a longitudinal cut, in depth about one-third of 

 the diameter ; insert the one in the other ; then place 



