BUDDIKG Aiq^D GRAFTING. 



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fitted to a stock, and then all lield in place by liga- 

 tures of waxed cloth, and the top of the stock also covered 

 with wax. This mode of grafting is practised on very 

 large stocks such as are not suitable for cleft grafting. 



Side or Triangular Grafting, — This is a modification 

 of cleft or crown crafting, and instead of splitting the 



Fig. 14. — SPLICE OR 



Fig. 13.— TRIANGULAR GRAFT. TONGUE GRAFTING. 



stock, a triangular incision is made in the side of the 

 stock, as shown in fig. 13, r, and the cion cut in the same 

 form and fitted into the cleft as shown. 



Splice or Tongue Grafting, — When the stock and cior 

 ire nearly of the same size, splice grafting is the most 

 3onYenient and certain method known. The stock is cut 

 Dff w^ith an upward slope, and a small cleft or split is 

 made in it, about midway on the slope, forming a tongue, 

 rhe cion is cut in the same way, but with a downward 

 slope, with a corresponding tongue, and the two are tl>en 



