. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 660 GRAFTAGE GRAFTAGE religiously observed, to insert the graft during the moon's ; The accompanying cut (Pig. 930) reproduced exact size from Robert Sharrock's "History of the Propaga- tion and Improvement of Vegetables," 1672, shows va- rious kinds of grafting in vogue over two centuri


. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 660 GRAFTAGE GRAFTAGE religiously observed, to insert the graft during the moon's ; The accompanying cut (Pig. 930) reproduced exact size from Robert Sharrock's "History of the Propaga- tion and Improvement of Vegetables," 1672, shows va- rious kinds of grafting in vogue over two centuries ago. Following is the literal explanation of the plate : h. k. p- a or (J. 930. Sharrock's illustration of the modes of Grafting:. 1672. The Exemplification of the Operations hy the Figure. a. Denotes the ordinary cutting of the bark for inoculation. b b. The sides of the biirk lifted np for the putting in of the shield. c. The shield taken off with the bud, which lies under the stalk of the leaf cut off. I n. The shield put into the stock to be bound up. d. The bark cut out in an oblon? squai'e, according to an- other usual way of inoculation. The shield cut out for the fitting the disbarked square. The same shield put into the stock, A variation of the forementioned way, by cutting off the upper part of the oljlique square, and binding the lower part down upon the shield. The shield so put in to be bound up. Another variation by slitting the bark, that the bud and leaf may stand forth at e, and the bark slit be bound down upon the shield. A cross cut for inoculation. The same cross cut lifted up, in this figure somewhat too big. The shield cut off to be put therein. The shield put in. Tlie cut of cyon or stock for whip-grafting. The cut of cyon and stock for shoulder-grafting. The cut of the eyons and slit of the stock for grafting in the cleft. X. The stock set for ablactation or approach. u. The cyon of the branch for the same operation. 1 2. The branch that is to b


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