. Fruits and fruit-trees of their position, tie themtogether carefully with a piece of bass matting or tape, h. And finallycover the wound with well-prepared grafting clay or wax, i. This ballof clay should more than cover the union, by an inch above and below,and should be about an inch thick. If grafting-wax is used, the cover-ing need not be above half an inch thick. American Whip Tongue- Grafting—the mode generally practised byAmerican nurserymen—is similar to the foregoing method, but muchmore rapid in its execution. The scion and stock are first cut, as rep-resented in Fig. 2,
. Fruits and fruit-trees of their position, tie themtogether carefully with a piece of bass matting or tape, h. And finallycover the wound with well-prepared grafting clay or wax, i. This ballof clay should more than cover the union, by an inch above and below,and should be about an inch thick. If grafting-wax is used, the cover-ing need not be above half an inch thick. American Whip Tongue- Grafting—the mode generally practised byAmerican nurserymen—is similar to the foregoing method, but muchmore rapid in its execution. The scion and stock are first cut, as rep-resented in Fig. 2, for splice-grafting, and then the knife is passedupward in the scion, a, Fig. 5, and downward in the stock, 6, forminga sliced tongue in appearance, and when joined together, c, serves to holdthe scion in place. The tying for out-door grafting is then done by anarrow strip of cloth, say half an inch to an inch wide, one side of whichis saturated or coated with grafting-wax, and as each turn round the 20 PROPAGATION OF American Whip Tongue-Grafting in itsdifferent stages. (a). Scion cut for insertion, (&). Stockprepared to receive the scion, (c). Stockand scion united, {d). The same tied up.
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