. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. GRA 259 GRA almost exclusively in Here- fordshire; but it is never attempted till the usual sea- son of grafting is past, and till the bark is readily de- tached from the alburnum. The head of the stock is then taken off, by a single stroke ofthe knife, oblique- ly, so that the incision com- mences about the width of the diameter of the stock, below the point where the medulla appears in the sec- tion, and ends as much above it upon the opposite side. The scion, or graft, which should not exceed in diameter half that of the stock, is then to be di
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. GRA 259 GRA almost exclusively in Here- fordshire; but it is never attempted till the usual sea- son of grafting is past, and till the bark is readily de- tached from the alburnum. The head of the stock is then taken off, by a single stroke ofthe knife, oblique- ly, so that the incision com- mences about the width of the diameter of the stock, below the point where the medulla appears in the sec- tion, and ends as much above it upon the opposite side. The scion, or graft, which should not exceed in diameter half that of the stock, is then to be divided Chink or Shoulder Grafting. Fig. 68. Root Grafting. Fig. ^..>- „^—, „. ^ , By whatever mode the operation be which should not exceed in performed, the essentials for success Hi^impt^r hnlf thnt ^f tl,» are, 1. That the same p nj-nft. parts of the stock and . ° j,' longitudinally, abouttwo inchesupwards 1 scion should he brought h f from its lower end, into two unequal into contact as much as possible — bark to bark, and alburnum to albur- num. 2. That as the nourishment has to be afforded to the graft from the alburnum ofthe stock with which it is brought in contact, this should not be exposed to the air for one minute longer than Fig. 70. divisions, by passing the knife upwards just in contact with one side ofthe me- dulla. The stronger division of the graft is then to be pared thin at its lower extremity, and introduced, as in crown grafting, between the bark and wood of the stock ; and the more slender divi- sion is fitted to the stock upon the op- posite side. " The graft, consequently, stands astride the stock, to which it attaches j is necessary to insert the itself firmly upon each side, and which ; previously prepared graft, it covers completely in a single season.' for if the surface becomes Grafts of the apple and pear rarely ever dry in the slightest de- fail in this method of grafting, which gree, vegetation on that part is perma- may be
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