. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. Fig. 19.—Whip or Splice-grafting-. of drought on the one hand, and excessive moisture on the other, either of which would seriously injure or altogether frustrate the union. Take now a piece of the same clay, and placing it round the graft, squeeze it firmly between the hands, making a sort of ball that will not be liable to fall away. This is to prevent the moisture of the graft from drying up, and if the stock is worked close to the ground, it may further be protected by drawing the soil around it. Should very dry weather intervene, in the case of gr
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. Fig. 19.—Whip or Splice-grafting-. of drought on the one hand, and excessive moisture on the other, either of which would seriously injure or altogether frustrate the union. Take now a piece of the same clay, and placing it round the graft, squeeze it firmly between the hands, making a sort of ball that will not be liable to fall away. This is to prevent the moisture of the graft from drying up, and if the stock is worked close to the ground, it may further be protected by drawing the soil around it. Should very dry weather intervene, in the case of grafting at some distance from the ground, it is sometimes convenient and advisable to wrap some moss round the ball of clay, and even water it at intervals with a fine-rosed watering-pot, to prevent its parting with its moisture too rapidly by evaporation. Presuming that the stock is of greater thickness than the scion, a condition of frequent occurrence, a slightly different mode of preparation will be neces- sary. Instead of cutting stock and scion equally thin, the former will have to be headed down with a slightly slanting cut, and then cut off a thin slice of no greater width than the scion will cover, so that the two cambium layers will fit accurately. Union may, however, be effected if one side only of each comes. Fig. 20.—Saddle-grafting. in contact, but this, being a weaker combination than is desirable, should be avoided. A slight modifica- tion of splice-grafting is that called Tongue-grafting. A little tongue is left on the scion to fit into a cor- responding notch of the stock. The object of this is to prevent the graft slipping down, thus spoiling the accuracy of contact between the coinciding cam- bium layers. This requires a little more skill and time, and is not much practised. "Whip or spHce-grafting is most extensively em- ployed for all kinds of garden plants, whether in the houses or out of doors, for fruit and ornamental trees, including Conifers.
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