. The nut culturist : a treatise on the propagation, planting and cultivation of nut-bearing trees and shrubs, adapted to the climate of the United States ... Nuts. THE CHESTNUT. 77 If the new growth or shoot to be employed as a cion is slender and feeble, then the base of the cion may be of two-year-old wood, leading just a bud or two on the upper end of the one-year shoot. But it will seldom be necessary to employ such cions in grafting the chestnut, although it may occur when seeking to secure wood for propagation, from very old trees which have made only a feeble annual growth. Cleft Graft
. The nut culturist : a treatise on the propagation, planting and cultivation of nut-bearing trees and shrubs, adapted to the climate of the United States ... Nuts. THE CHESTNUT. 77 If the new growth or shoot to be employed as a cion is slender and feeble, then the base of the cion may be of two-year-old wood, leading just a bud or two on the upper end of the one-year shoot. But it will seldom be necessary to employ such cions in grafting the chestnut, although it may occur when seeking to secure wood for propagation, from very old trees which have made only a feeble annual growth. Cleft Grafting.âThis method is employed princi- pally upon stocks or branches of trees too large for splic- ing. The stock is first cut ofE at the point where it is desirable to insert the cion; then split with a knife, being careful to divide it, so that the edges will he kept smooth, and not rough and ragged (Fig. 15). When the knife blade is withdrawn, the cleft may he kept open with a hard wood wedge, if the stock is too large to admit of opening it with the point of the knife cion. when ready to insert the cion. The cion may be three or four inches long, containing two or more buds; the lower end is cut wedge-shape, as shown in Pig. 16, and slightly the thickest on the side to be set against the bark of the stock. In stocks of an inch or more in diameter, two cions, one on each side, may be inserted (Pig. 17), and if both grow one should be cut I away, else the tree, in later years, will be very likely to divide or break apart at this point. In stocks of an inch or less in di- I ameter, one cion is sufficient, the top of the stock to be cut off with an upward ^lo- "â ^'o- ^^â slope, as shown in Pig. 18. After the cions are inserted, the entire exposed surface of the wood must be covered with grafting wax or waxed paper, and usually both may FIG. 15. STOCK. riG. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for
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