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GRAFTING. 
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downwards. The scion is then taken off 
near the root of the plant, and the end 
being cut into a wedge-shape, is inserted in 
the slit. The wound is then bound up with 
strips of cloth spread with grafting wax, and 
the leaf taken great care of. When the 
graft begins to grow, this leaf and all the 
shoots below it are removed. In this manner 
artichokes have been grafted on cardoons, 
and cauliflowers on cabbages with great 
success. Tomatoes have also been grafted 
on potatoes in this manner, the potatoes 
perfecting their tubers, and the tomatoes 
their fruit, at the same time; and it is said 
that the ripening of the latter was much 
accelerated. This mode of grafting was 
invented by the Baron Tschoudy, a gentle¬ 
man residing at Metz, and the principal 
point in it which requires attention, is the 
preserving a leaf, or two leaves, at the ex¬ 
tremity of the stock, to serve as nurses to 
the graft. 
Inarching , or Grafting by Approach. — 
Though I have left this till last, it is in fact 
the most simple of all ways of grafting, and 
it is certainly the only one practised by 
