GRAFTING BY DETACHED SCIONS. 



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in order to gain height. The slit in the stock is cut through the pith, and 

 from 1 to inches in length ; and the graft being tied, is coated over with 

 grafting-wax, as being lighter than clay, and not so 

 liable to bend down the shoot. Entire cedars of 

 Lebanon at Elvaston Castle have had the extremities 

 of their shoots grafted in this manner with Cedrus 

 Deoddra, by Mr. Barron, the inventor of this mode. 

 (See Gard. Mag., vol. xiv., p. 80.) 



658. Grafting the mistletoe has been successfully 

 performed in the wedge manner by Mr. Pit, farmer 

 and grafter, near Hatfield, in Herefordshire. To be 

 attended with success, there must be a joint let into 

 the soft wood of the stock, or a scion taken off with a 

 heel, and the heel of the preceding year's wood in- 

 serted. (See Gard. Mag., vol. xiii., p. 207.)« 



659. Root-grafting is merely the union of a scion 

 to a root, instead of to a stem. It is sometimes 

 practised in nurseries, by grafting the apple and the 

 pear on the roots of thorns, tree peonies on herba- 

 ceous peonies (see herbaceous grafting, 662), stove 

 passion-flowers, Japan clematises, &c., on the common 



), sorts, and with various other stove and greenhouse 

 1 plants, especially climbers. The greatest care is re- 

 p quisite to prevent any particles of soil from getting in 

 / between the scion and the stock, for which purpose 

 Fig. 212. Side-grafting the ^'^^ ^PP^r part of the latter is sometimes washed 

 orange. with Water before the operation is performed. The 



roots of thorns, peas, and crabs, as already observed, are frequently grafted 

 in-doors, and taken out and planted so deep, that only the upper part of the 

 scion appears above ground. An- A 

 other mode where a thorn hedge \\ 

 is taken up, or a row of seedling \\ ^ 

 pear or crab stocks is transplanted, \ \ / 

 and a portion of the roots left in \\j 

 the soil, is to graft on them where \ \ 

 they stand, and afterwards to c\\ 

 earth-up the graft — a mode which \ 1 

 would doubtless be very success- \l 

 fill. 



660. Herbaceous-grafting is 

 applicable either to the solid parts 

 of herbaceous plants, or to the 

 branches of ligneous plants when 

 they are in a herbaceous state. 

 Baron de Tschoudy, of Metz, the 

 inventor of this method, and M. Soulange Bodin, 

 of Fromont, have grafted the melon on the cu- 

 cumber, the tomata on the common potatoe, the 

 Fig. 213. Side-grafting the vine, cauliflower on the broccoli and the borecole ; and 

 on the tender-growing shoots of various forest-trees, and of azaleas and 

 other shrubs, hardy and tender, tl^ey have grafted successfully allied 

 species. This mode has been extensively employed for the last fifteen 



Fig. 214. Wedge- 

 grafting. 



