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THE GARDE N MAGAZINE 
May, 1917 
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Crown Grafting; An Easy Way 
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TAID you ever graft a fruit tree? It is 
wonderful when you come to think of it: 
that the tiny cutting inserted into a foreign 
stalk, should grow and expand and assert its 
own individuality above that of the root that 
feeds it. Our most popular form of grafting is 
the cleft; that where the stock is split and the 
cutting or cions inserted into either side of the 
stock. And this often gives good results, but 
did you ever try the crown graft? 
My experience with cleft grafting was not as 
satisfactory as one is led to expect from the 
description of it. Out of a possible dozen at- 
tempts, only one lived. It is true that the 
stalk-wood was of considerable size (two or 
three inches), but had this been of rapid 
growth, it might have been successful. As it 
was, the growth was comparatively old on half 
starved trees and the grain of the wood con- 
siderably twisted. 
When the next season came around, we de- 
cided to know why and it was soon evident 
from a few experiments that the twist of the 
slow growing stock was responsible for the fact 
that the cions did not engage the bark prop- 
erly. So right here we stopped and consulted 
the little book. This stated that it was a 
popular form abroad for large stalks, but the 
native experts had never heard of it. As 
described by the Government pamphlet, it 
consisted in cutting the cions evenly wedge 
shape (a long cut) and inserting them between 
the bark and the wood of the stock. Right 
here you will note that the two bark surfaces of 
the cion engage the bark of the stock their 
whole length, wherein the cleft cion is generally 
inclined slightly outward so as not to miss a 
jointure and thus reduces the area of the meet- 
ing. 
When we carried out the directions literally, 
we found that the pressure necessary’ to force 
the cion into place was sure to strip the bark 
from its rather slender wedge. So we tried 
inserting a pen-knife between the bark and 
wood of the stalk, being careful not to injure 
the bark. This proved successful and easy. 
There was no binding to be done. 1 he 
bark did the binding and wax was banked 
about the cion at the point of its insertion. 
The tips of cions also were waxed. On the 
smaller stalks we used from three to four cions 
and on the larger from five to eight. Of 
course the cut made in the stock was pitched 
to shed water. 
Our luck with the crown graft was very satis- . 
factory’; out of all that we put into eight trees 
— from one to three in each, not one was lost. 
Some that did not respond at all at first 
were given up as hopeless, but even these came 
on later and showed up well. I he reason for 
this irregularity lay in the vigor of the stock, 
the stronger coming first. 
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