Mar,] 



THE FRUIT GARDEN 



ing, at wliich time the scion and stock will join together, and 

 unite much sooner than at any other season or period of the 

 year. It is principally employed in raising camellias, oranges, 

 and other exotic trees of the harder kinds. 



It has been found that the walnut, fig, and mulberry will 

 take by this method of grafting, while neither of them succeed 

 well in any of the other modes. Several sorts of evergreens 

 may likewise be propagated by this method of grafting; but 

 all the trees that are grafted in this way are weaker, and 

 never grow to the size of those which are grafted in the 

 other methods ; therefore it is rarely practised, except on such 

 sorts of trees as will not take by the other methods of per- 

 forming the operation. 



Root-grafting is performed by cutting the clean smooth 

 roots of the stocks in pieces five or six inches long, and as 

 large or a little larger than the graft; then they are whip- 

 grafted, and tied together very closely, so as to prevent the 

 wet from affecting the wounded parts, planting them so deep 

 as that the graft, which should be four or five inches long, 

 may be about half buried. 



Side-grafthig resembles whip or tongue-grafting, but dif- 

 fers in being performed on the side of the stock without being 

 headed down. It is sometimes practised upon wall-trees, to 

 fill up vacancies, and sometimes in order to have a variety of 

 fruits on the same tree. Having fixed on those parts of the 

 branches, where shoots are wanted to furnish the head or 

 any part of the tree, then slope off the bark, and a little of 

 the wood, and cut the lower ends of the scions to fit the part as 

 near as possible, then join them to the branch, and secure them 

 with bass, and clay them over as in other sorts of grafting. 



Shoulder i or chinh-grafting, is performed with a shoulder 

 and sometimes with a stay at the bottom of the slope. It is 

 chiefly used for shrubs and ornamental trees, where the scion 

 and stock are of the same size. 



Saddlc-graftlng is performed by first cutting the head oil 

 the stock in a wedge-like form, and then splitting up the end 

 of the scion, and thinning off each half to a tongue-shape; 't 

 is then placed on the wedge-like stock, embracing it on each 

 bide, and the inner barks are made to join on one side of the 



