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A good eye will enable the operator to cut this, with exact adaptation to the 
split. A shoulder should be formed on the graft at the base of this wedge. 
Two scions should be inserted in each stock. I set them perpendicular, 
and take care to bring the inner bark in exact contiguity. A liberal coat 
of wax should then be applied, so as to invest perfectly the base of the 
grafts and the top and sides of the stock, as far down as the split extends. 
The admission of air or water to the cut surfaces will defeat their union. 
In using the wax, it should be applied at about the consistency of cream 
sufficiently warm to spread uniformly, but not hot enough to impair the 
stock or scion. 
Next wrap about the sides and crown of the stock, as far as the wax 
extends, a strip of soft paper, and confine it by aid of some softened wax. 
When the grafts commence growing they should be examined almost 
daily. Some insect may be preying on their tender shoots ; strips may be 
ligating ; sprouts from the stock may be monopolizing the circulation or 
luxuriance of growth may require to be staked and tied, to give a rich direc- 
tion or secure them against wind and storm. 
Should the scion fail, a few leading sprouts from the stock should be 
reserved for subsequent operations. In case this contingency occur, with a 
whip or saddle graft, the stock will be in no wise injured, but will send out still 
finer growth for future budding or engrafting. But when split grafting is 
resorted to, and is not successful, a severe shock is given to the stock 
from which it takes a long time to recover. Besides, the union is not 
always as perfect by this latter process as by the two former named. 
It is occasionally convenient to carry on the process of changing a large 
stock during the summer. We may then innoculate some of the limbs 
which are from two to six years of age, and from one to three inches in 
diameter. Late in the month of June, or early in July, in this locality, the 
bark of these old growth will peel freely. The largest and most mature 
buds should then be selected for insertion. In taking the bud from the 
cutting, the base should be formed at least two inches long, and from it be 
careful not to detach the wood. Be equally careful after its insertion to 
secure it firmly by a liberal supply of bass matting, yet care must be taken 
not to bind it so tight as to interrupt the circulation. 
At the time the buds begin to swell, during the next spring, the stocks in 
which such buds have taken, should be sawn off some six to ten inches 
above the place of their insertion. After one year's growth these stocks 
must be cut off again, close to the buds, and the surface thus exposed, be 
coated with several applications of a varnish of gum-shell-lac and alcohol. 
