. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 214 CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING. sloping and firmly binding together of the scion to the stock, exactly as in splicing a broken whip. To make the union the more perfect, sound, and durable, these two should be of equal diameters. Thus each part fits to the corresponding part, wood to wood, cambium to cambium, bark to bark, all roimd. The more perfect the fit, the more speedy and sound the union. Cut the stock across at the height desired, then place the graft against its side, an inch or an inch and a half from its crown, take the measure with the eye,
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 214 CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING. sloping and firmly binding together of the scion to the stock, exactly as in splicing a broken whip. To make the union the more perfect, sound, and durable, these two should be of equal diameters. Thus each part fits to the corresponding part, wood to wood, cambium to cambium, bark to bark, all roimd. The more perfect the fit, the more speedy and sound the union. Cut the stock across at the height desired, then place the graft against its side, an inch or an inch and a half from its crown, take the measure with the eye, and make a clean diagonal cut across the stock from the required spot, tapering almost to a point oh its top. It is most important that this cut should be. Fi<r. 19.—Whip or Splice Grafting, a, stock; h, scion ; c, the two united. Fig. 20.—Whip or Splice Graf ting, with Tongue ataonstocli; b, scion; c, the two united. clean and smooth, tapering equally all the way. Having already taken the scion in hand, proceed to cut it in the same way, making the cut the exact counterpart of that on the stock. Then, without a moment's delay, place the two fresh-cut surfaces together, and bind them tight with bast, cotton-wick, or other ligature, and the mysterious art of grafting is completed. If the fit be good, and the inner bark of scion and stock impinge against each other along their lines of contact, success is almost certain, other- wise failure is even more sure. This is the simplest mode of whip grafting, and is as good as any other. JFhip Grafting with —This consists in forcing portions of the wood of the scion into the stock, and vice versa if desired, for there are modes of double as well as single 'tongue grafting. Our illustration will explain this better than any amount of description (Fig. 20). But as it increases the trouble, and does little or nothing to accelerate the union or make it more certain, it need not be further adverted to here. Crown Grafting.
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