. Complete farmer's guide. Agriculture; Farm life. [from old catalog]. HOW PLANTS ARE REPRODUCED 65 grafting, as it is also called) and cleft grafting. Tongue grafting is used mostly on young seedling stocks less than an inch in diameter. For plants larger than that, and es- pecially in top working old trees, some form of cleft grafting is generally used. 1. For the tongue graft the stock should be about the size of a pencil. The scion should be as near the same size. Fig. 48. The process of cleft grafting. as possible, and should have two or more buds on it. Cut .the stock off with a slant, s
. Complete farmer's guide. Agriculture; Farm life. [from old catalog]. HOW PLANTS ARE REPRODUCED 65 grafting, as it is also called) and cleft grafting. Tongue grafting is used mostly on young seedling stocks less than an inch in diameter. For plants larger than that, and es- pecially in top working old trees, some form of cleft grafting is generally used. 1. For the tongue graft the stock should be about the size of a pencil. The scion should be as near the same size. Fig. 48. The process of cleft grafting. as possible, and should have two or more buds on it. Cut .the stock off with a slant, so as to give a cut surface 'about three times as great as it would have been if cut square across. Then set the knife blade about one-third the distance down from the top of the cut surface and make a vertical incision about one-half inch long. (See Figure 47.) Trim the scion in similar manner, join the two together as shown in Figure 47, wrap with a string, or press stiff clay around to hold the two in place. Knives should always be thoroughly cleaned before cutting into a plant and, as far. 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 Kyle, Edwin Jackson. [from old catalog]; Ellis, Alexander Caswell, 1871- [from old catalog] joint author. New York, Chicago [etc. ] C. Scribner's sons
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