Elliott's fruit book; or, The Elliott's fruit book; or, The American fruit-grower's guide in orchard and garden. Being a compend of the history, modes of propagation, culture, etc., of fruit trees and shrubs, with descriptions of nearly all the varieties of fruits cultivated in this country; notes of their adaptation to localities and soils, and also a complete list of fruits worthy of cultivation elliottsfruitboo00elli Year: 1858 24 OKIGIXATINvx OF VARIETIES. nection between the two severed portions. This is done as soon as the bark will separate ; the same end may, however, be accom- plishe
Elliott's fruit book; or, The Elliott's fruit book; or, The American fruit-grower's guide in orchard and garden. Being a compend of the history, modes of propagation, culture, etc., of fruit trees and shrubs, with descriptions of nearly all the varieties of fruits cultivated in this country; notes of their adaptation to localities and soils, and also a complete list of fruits worthy of cultivation elliottsfruitboo00elli Year: 1858 24 OKIGIXATINvx OF VARIETIES. nection between the two severed portions. This is done as soon as the bark will separate ; the same end may, however, be accom- plished early in spring by cutting away portions of the sap-wood with the bark, and connecting the two parts by several pieces of a branch, care being taken that they coincide accurately, as in graft- ing. The whole,^ in either case, is then covered with wax.' Grafting^ like budding, has numerous modes and forms, all resolving into the same thing—that of transferring one variety onto another. The modes most regarded, and in most common prac- tice, we describe. Whip or tongue grafting. This is most generally practised when the stock and scion are nearly of equal size. The whole gist of it lays in so forming the graft and stock that the two outer surfaces of albumen, or wood of last year's growth, match one with the other, or if the stock is too large that they match on one side. See fig. 9. The tongue is a notch cut in the stock corresponding with one cut in the graft, and when put together, to serve as support in steady- ing the graft until the circulation of sap has united it with the stock. This is practised to a large extent by nursery-men on pieces of i'Oots, and is then termed ' root-grafting.' Splice Grafting is similar to tongue grafting, except that no slit is made in either stock or graft. See fig. 10. Crown Grafting is performed in the same manner, only that it is done on small stocks standing in the ground, at a point near the upper rootlet or fibre. See fig. 11. Saddle
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