How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in making attractive homes and beautiful cities . up in a waxed or oiled paper. Keepin a cool moist place until needed. When used, it shouldbe cut in strips about one-fourth inch wide. There are 78 HOW TO MAKE HOME several simple methods of root grafting; three, whipgrafting, tongue grafting, and saddle grafting, will be ex-plained. In each case it is necessary to get the growingtissues (cambium layers) to coincide. If they do not, theywill fail to unite. This growing tissue, or cambium layeris just inside the inner bark. B
How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in making attractive homes and beautiful cities . up in a waxed or oiled paper. Keepin a cool moist place until needed. When used, it shouldbe cut in strips about one-fourth inch wide. There are 78 HOW TO MAKE HOME several simple methods of root grafting; three, whipgrafting, tongue grafting, and saddle grafting, will be ex-plained. In each case it is necessary to get the growingtissues (cambium layers) to coincide. If they do not, theywill fail to unite. This growing tissue, or cambium layeris just inside the inner bark. Before grafting, the tops ofthe seedlings should be removed as the roots only are tobe used. Thoroughly wash the roots (this is very essen-tial in order to keep the knife sharp). Cut them intopieces five or six inches long. Each piece more than one-eighth inch thick will make a root graft. When the upperor distal end of the scion has been cut, the cut surfaceshould be covered by grafting wax. WHIP GRAFTING For plain whip grafting, make long slanting cuts onthe upper end of the root and the lower end of the scion so. -grafting wax >/if dijforend becnf) ?(fd3li groffrng cfofK PLAIN WHIP-GRAFTING AND CITY BEAUTIFUL 79 that they just match each other. Place them so the cam-bium layer of the stock and scion coincide and bind firmlywith grafting cloth cut in strips about one-fourth inchwide. Begin winding well below the union and continuespirally up over it. The scions should not be over four,inches long. This method is used on brittle woods asraspberries and blackberries, as well as on apple and pearseedlings. TONGUE GRAFTING Make a clean, long, slanting cut on the upper end ofthe stock. Select a scion about the same size and make asimilar cut on the lower end of it. Both cuts should beclean, smooth and match each other. Make a little tonguein each by cutting out a small wedge-shaped chip as shownin the cut. Press stock and scion firmly together so thatthe tongues dovetail. Be sur
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