. Biggle orchard book [microform] : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form. Fruit-culture. 22 MGGLK ORCHARD BOOK and apple. Do the grafting, if possible, on a mild day during showery weather. The necessary tools are a chisel or a thick-bladed knife or a grafting iron (with which to split open the stock after it is sawed off smoothly with a fine-tooth saw), a hammer or mallet to aid the splitting process, a very sharp knife to trim the scions, and a supply of good grafting SPLITTING THE BTOCR TRIMMED SCION SCIONS INSERTED SECTIONAL TOP VIEW O
. Biggle orchard book [microform] : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket : gathered and packed into book form. Fruit-culture. 22 MGGLK ORCHARD BOOK and apple. Do the grafting, if possible, on a mild day during showery weather. The necessary tools are a chisel or a thick-bladed knife or a grafting iron (with which to split open the stock after it is sawed off smoothly with a fine-tooth saw), a hammer or mallet to aid the splitting process, a very sharp knife to trim the scions, and a supply of good grafting SPLITTING THE BTOCR TRIMMED SCION SCIONS INSERTED SECTIONAL TOP VIEW OF SCIONS IN PLACE GRAFTING WAX APPLIED CLEFT GRAFTING '. FROM START TO FINISH Saw off a branch at the desired point, split the stock a little way down, and insert a scion at each outer edge—taking care that the inner bark of the scion fits snugly and exactly against the inner bark of the stock. This—together with the exclusion of air and moisture until a union results—constitutes the secret of success. Trim the scions wedge-shaped, as shown in the picture ; insert them accurately ; the wedge. 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 Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia : Wilmer Atkinson Co.
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