. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. 234 AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. TONGUE GRAFTING, Fig. 116. ...Jm. a. The stock prepared for tongue grafting. 6. The graft prepared for tongue grafting. c. The graft set, or graft and stock interlocked. d. The graft set and hound, ready for covering with grafting raortar or composition, c. A length of a one-year-old seedling root tongue grafted and wrapped with tow
. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. 234 AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. TONGUE GRAFTING, Fig. 116. ...Jm. a. The stock prepared for tongue grafting. 6. The graft prepared for tongue grafting. c. The graft set, or graft and stock interlocked. d. The graft set and hound, ready for covering with grafting raortar or composition, c. A length of a one-year-old seedling root tongue grafted and wrapped with tow, and ready for planting. Tongue grafting is not so simple as cleft or cro-rni graft- ing, neitlier is it any more successful, but it is much better suited to vciy young stocks, from a quarter to three quarters of an inch diameter, and is sometimes preferred on account of the greater delicacy of handling Tvhich it requires, and the prompit- itude and neatness with which it usually heals over. It is performed in the following manner: the stock being cut off to a cleai' spot with a sloping cut, a slice or tongue of wood is cut from one side, one or two inches long, to the depth of from one to two thirds the diameter of the stock to be grafted, leaving it, except in the greater length of the cut, much like the mouth-piece of a hmrter's whistle. The knife is then tmiied edge do'mrward, and being gradually entered upon the face of this cut, about one third down, a thin tongue or apron, of less than an inch in length, is carefully formed. Fig. 11G a. The graft is then cut of a length to match with the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Watson, Alexander. New York, Harper & Brothers
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