. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. a. Liitjo stock cleft and wedged for the reception of the grafta, b. Laigi stock cleft grafted. c. 1 arg stock cleft grafted, showing the excessive opening of the split, and the difficulty of tittmg thi graft wedge to tlie stock. t/. Shouldered graft, with thin, tongue-like wedge, to obviate the difficulty of fitting the graft ; to the stock. c. Thin
. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. a. Liitjo stock cleft and wedged for the reception of the grafta, b. Laigi stock cleft grafted. c. 1 arg stock cleft grafted, showing the excessive opening of the split, and the difficulty of tittmg thi graft wedge to tlie stock. t/. Shouldered graft, with thin, tongue-like wedge, to obviate the difficulty of fitting the graft ; to the stock. c. Thin-wedged, shouldered graft inserted, with bud resting on botli sides of the cleft. In cleft grafting large trees or branches, the body or limb is carefully sawed off and smoothed. It is then split with the ciu'ved knife of the grafting tool, which should be driven with repeated gentle blows with a light mallet rather than with a sudden stroke ; the wedge end of the tool is then inserted at the centre to keep the cleft open, or a wooden wedge is used (Fig. 114 a), while a graft is set on each side, the graft wedge being cut as above directed, except that it may be of even thickness on both edges, the cleft in this case being equally open on both sides (Fig. 114 h). Owing to the difficulty experienced in cleft gi'afting large trees on account of the depth to which the cleft in a strong body or limb will open (Fig. 114 c), the grafts for this pur- pose arc sometimes sliouldered—that is, cut square in on both sides at the upper end of the wedge, and, instead of a true wedge, a thin, wedge-like tongue is formed for insertion in the cleft (Fig. 114 (1), while the shouldering is carefully made just. 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 Watson, Alexander. New York, Harper & Brothers
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