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is then placed in the lower part of this cavity, in the same 

 manner as with cleft grafting. This mode is called 

 Aspirant, from the hud above the incision, w^hich continues 

 to draw up the sap, until the development of 

 the cion. When the cion has grown about two. 

 inches, the toj) of the stock is cut off and covered 

 with grafting wax. This mode is not always 

 successful, as the sap sometimes leaves the side 

 of the stock which has been j)artly cut away 

 and passes up the other side. 



The French have also a mode of grafting, 

 which they call par incrustation^ and which is 

 performed in the spring, as soon as the leaf-buds 

 appear. A cion with a bud adhering to the wood 

 is cut in a sort of oval shape, and inserted in a 

 cavity made of the same shape, and just below 

 an eye w^hich has commenced growing. It is then 

 bound around wdth matting, as in budding. This 

 is a sort of spring budding, with rather more wood 

 ^^a- attached to the bud, than in summer budding. It 

 is very successfully practiced by various cultivators in the 

 vicinity of Paris. There is still another mode sometimes 

 practiced in France, which owes its origin to a cultivator 

 named Lecoq. A small branch is chosen, which is provided 

 with two buds, one of them being on the ujDper part, and 

 the other near its larger end. A sidelong sloping cut is 

 made all along its lower half, the upper being left entire. 

 When the cion is thus prepared, its cut side is fitted to 

 the side of the stock under the bark, which has been cut 

 and peeled back. It is then bound around with mat- 

 strings or grafting cloth in the usual way. This mode 

 has a peculiar merit ; should the upper bud not grow, the 

 lower one rarely fails, and develops itself as in common 

 budding. 



Cleft and whip-grafting is also practiced occasionally 

 upon the roots of the Rose, and succeeds very well with 



