. American pomology : Apples. Apples. PROPAGATION". 85 the stock and the scion are in a growing condition, so that the bark will run freely; care also must be exercised to avoid injuring the eye of the bud, in peeling off the ring. A modification of bark grafting may be applied with great advantage, however, to an old tree, that has met with an injury to a portion of its bark. The injured part, should be pared smoothly to the sound bark and wood.^ This may be done with a sloping cut, or. the edge may be made abrupt and. square with a chisel and mallet; a piece of fresh wood and bark is th
. American pomology : Apples. Apples. PROPAGATION". 85 the stock and the scion are in a growing condition, so that the bark will run freely; care also must be exercised to avoid injuring the eye of the bud, in peeling off the ring. A modification of bark grafting may be applied with great advantage, however, to an old tree, that has met with an injury to a portion of its bark. The injured part, should be pared smoothly to the sound bark and wood.^ This may be done with a sloping cut, or. the edge may be made abrupt and. square with a chisel and mallet; a piece of fresh wood and bark is then to be cut from a healthy tree and fitted pre- cisely to the fresh wound, and secured in its place with bandages, and graft- ing clay or wax is then applied, thus making what the surgeons would call a sort of taliacotian operation. Instead of a single piece of wood and bark, a number of young shoots may be used to make the communication complete; these are set close together and secured in the- usual manner; see fig. 15. „ ,^ Re-grafti:n^g Old Oechards.—^Old FlI^. 15.—BARK GRAFT^ iNG, TO REPAIR AN OTchards of inferior fruit may be entire- iNjuRED TREE. jy rc-madc and re-formed by graft- ing the limbs with such varieties as we-may desire. A new life is by this process often infused into the trees, which is due to the very eevere pruning which the trees then receive; they are consequently soon covered with a vigorous growth of young healthy wood, which replaces the decrepid and often decaying spray that accumulates in an old orchard, and the fruit produced for several. w^r;;0,^^r-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Warder, J. A. (John Aston), 1812-1883. New York : Orange Judd and company
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