Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form . SEED-GROWING, GRAFTING AND BUDDING. method) in SIDEGRAFTING Side grafting : See ilkistration. A,B and C show how it is done. Splice grafting is very simple. It islike whip grafting, minus the two diagonally cut ends are fittedtogether (spliced) and then held inplace by a waxed tie. Top grafting means, simply, theinserting of scions (by any desiredthe branches of trees. Many a worthless tree has thus beenchanged into a desirable using enough scions it is possibl


Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form . SEED-GROWING, GRAFTING AND BUDDING. method) in SIDEGRAFTING Side grafting : See ilkistration. A,B and C show how it is done. Splice grafting is very simple. It islike whip grafting, minus the two diagonally cut ends are fittedtogether (spliced) and then held inplace by a waxed tie. Top grafting means, simply, theinserting of scions (by any desiredthe branches of trees. Many a worthless tree has thus beenchanged into a desirable using enough scions it is possibleto make an entire new top on almostany tree. See Fig. II, and studythe idea shown there. It is notbest to cut away too much of theold tree at once ; therefore, a fewsecondary branches are left, andthese, after the scions are thriftilygrowing, can gradually be cut away thefollowing season. Whip grafting, also called tonguegrafting (see Fig. Ill), consists of anexact dovetailing of scion into use this method in specialcases, and often in root grafting. The Art of Budding.—This consistsin taking a bvid from one tree and in


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