. The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . Fig. second operation is setting these grafts into the roots. Each rootis held in the left hand precisely as tlie scion has been—(fig. 163;) the three cuts are given it (shown by the dotted linesin fig. 164,) to prepare it forthe graft (as represented inFig. 164. fig. 165, on the opi)osite A page.) The grafts having been placed directly under the operators fin- jj^gers, and in the right position, each one is successively taken and firmly (J OF RURAL 317 fitted to the prepared root,as s
. The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . Fig. second operation is setting these grafts into the roots. Each rootis held in the left hand precisely as tlie scion has been—(fig. 163;) the three cuts are given it (shown by the dotted linesin fig. 164,) to prepare it forthe graft (as represented inFig. 164. fig. 165, on the opi)osite A page.) The grafts having been placed directly under the operators fin- jj^gers, and in the right position, each one is successively taken and firmly (J OF RURAL 317 fitted to the prepared root,as shown in fig. 166, and assoon as this is done, anothercut of tlie knife three incheslower down the root, seversit, and the root-graft isis finished, and droi)s offobliquely on the sloping cut onFig. 166. the same root, and a slit for the tongue, are quickl} made, and another graft picked up and in-serted, the root being held all the Avhile in the left hand, until worked great point is to perform much with little handling. A single rootwill sometimes make but one graft, but more commonly two or three, andsometimes more. Each portion of root should be about three incheslong, and the graft about five inches. Root-grafting may be performed at any time during winter, and thosewho have much of it to do, often continue the process the winter roots when taken up in autumn, should be well washed, the tops cutoff, and the roots packed in boxes with alternate layers of damp one-year roots are better and more easily
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