. The American fruit culturist. Fig. 6i. Fig. 55, the points, a, a, a, the places where it is cut intografts, and the dotted lines show how the cuts are 56 shows a portion of the shoot the natural size; i,the first cut nearly directly across; 2, the second or sloping PROP A GA TION. 39 cut, and 3, the slit for the tongue; and the whole finishedand separate in Fig. 57. Three strokes of the knife are thusrequired to cut and prepare each graft, and a rapid and skil-ful operator has done one hundred and twelve in the mannerdescribed, in five minutes. Each shoot is thus cut up whileyet he
. The American fruit culturist. Fig. 6i. Fig. 55, the points, a, a, a, the places where it is cut intografts, and the dotted lines show how the cuts are 56 shows a portion of the shoot the natural size; i,the first cut nearly directly across; 2, the second or sloping PROP A GA TION. 39 cut, and 3, the slit for the tongue; and the whole finishedand separate in Fig. 57. Three strokes of the knife are thusrequired to cut and prepare each graft, and a rapid and skil-ful operator has done one hundred and twelve in the mannerdescribed, in five minutes. Each shoot is thus cut up whileyet held in the left hand, and the grafts, as fast as they aresevered, drop into the cavity of the apron already counting is done during the process of cutting, and at noother time. The second operation is setting these grafts into the root is held in the left hand precisely as the scion hasbeen (Fig. 58); the three cuts are given it (shown by the. Fig. 62.—Piece Roots. dotted lines in Fig. 59), to prepare it for the graft (as repre-sented in Fig. 60). The grafts having been placed directlyunder the operators fingers, and in the right position, eachone is successively taken and firmly fitted to the preparedroot, as shown in Fig. 61, and as soon as this is done, anothercut of the knife, three inches lower down the root, severs it,and the root-graft is finished, and drops off obliquely on thetable. Another sloping cut on the same root, and a slit forthe tongue, are quickly made, and another graft picked upand inserted, the root being held all the while in the lefthand, until worked up. The great point is to perform muchwith little handling. A single root will sometimes make butone graft, which is then called whole-root graft; but more 40 PROP A GA TION. commonly two or three, and sometimes more, which are calledpiece-root grafts. Each portion of root should be about threeinches long, and the graft about five inches. The comparat
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