. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 214 CASSELL'S POPTJLAE GABDENING. eloping and firmly binding together of the scion to the stock, exactly as in splicing a broken whip. To make the union the more perfect, sound, and durable, these two should be of equal diameters. Thus each part fits to the corresponding part, wood to wood, cambium to cambium, bark to bark, aU round. The more perfect the fit, the more speedy and sound the union. Cut the stock across at the height desired, then place the graft against its sidej an inch or an inch and a half from its crown, take the measure with the eye,
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 214 CASSELL'S POPTJLAE GABDENING. eloping and firmly binding together of the scion to the stock, exactly as in splicing a broken whip. To make the union the more perfect, sound, and durable, these two should be of equal diameters. Thus each part fits to the corresponding part, wood to wood, cambium to cambium, bark to bark, aU round. The more perfect the fit, the more speedy and sound the union. Cut the stock across at the height desired, then place the graft against its sidej an inch or an inch and a half from its crown, take the measure with the eye, and make a clean diagonal out across the stock from the required spot, tapering almost to a point on its top. It is most important that this cut should be. Figr. 19.—Whip or Splice Grafting, a, stock; t, scion; c, tlie two iiBited. rig. 20.—Whip or Splice Graf ting, Witt Tongue at a on stock; b, scion; c, the two nnited. sHt is then taade down one or, where the stock is larger, two or more sides of the stock, and the bark slightly raised as for budding; the wedge portion of the scion is pushed into the sUt, bound firmly into position, and the process is complete. There are, however, many modifications of this mode of grafting, though this, of which an illustration is given (Fig. 21), is the simplest and the best. Cleft Grafting!.—In this also the preliminary preparation of the stock may be broadly affirmed to be the same as in the others, that is, the head is cut off. Beyond this the mode is considerably different. The simplest method of cleft grafting is that in which the stock and scion are of about equal diameters. A wedge- shaped piece of wood is then cut out of the stock, the scion is cut to fit this V-like cavity, placed in, and bound in position. This mode, how- ever, is often practised when the stock is much the larger; in that case a piece of wood is cut out of the side of the stock, the scion is manipulated to fit in quite level with the bark, and the process i
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