. The book of the garden. Gardening. 334 HARDY FRUIT GARDEN. branches of which the stock and graft are of the same diameter. Side-grafting is merely a modification of whip or splice grafting, and is performed on a stock whose head is not cut off, or on a branch with- out its being shortened. The great utility of this mode is the facility it offers of supplying branches to parts of trees where they may have become too thin, or making a branch in case of accidents. It is usefully employed upon wall or espalier trees that have become naked of f ruit-buds towards the centre, while they may have ab
. The book of the garden. Gardening. 334 HARDY FRUIT GARDEN. branches of which the stock and graft are of the same diameter. Side-grafting is merely a modification of whip or splice grafting, and is performed on a stock whose head is not cut off, or on a branch with- out its being shortened. The great utility of this mode is the facility it offers of supplying branches to parts of trees where they may have become too thin, or making a branch in case of accidents. It is usefully employed upon wall or espalier trees that have become naked of f ruit-buds towards the centre, while they may have abundance towards their extremities. Branches of the same kind, or of other kinds if desired, may be by this mode put on at the base of the old branches, and the young shoots trained over them as they advance, thus providing young and bud-producing wood at those parts of the trees which must have otherwise remained in a state of sterility. The same may be done upon stan- dard fruit-trees with a like effect, and orna- mental trees and shrubs may be again clothed with young wood at those parts where, from mismanagement or otherwise, they may have become naked. There is only one disadvantage attending this mode, which is, as the branches on which the operation is performed have not been cut back, the scions are less likely to take : as the flow of the sap is not materially in- terrupted, it is apt to pass without forming the union between the graft and the branch. This may, however, be so far remedied by bending down the branch to as low an angle as possible, which will tend to moderate the rapidity of the sap's flow; or a tight ligature may be placed on the branch a little above the graft. The French have a variety of side-grafting, which they call veneer- grafting, and which they employ in working young oranges and camellias. For this purpose they form the incision in the stock by taking a very thin slice out of it, and leaving a sort of shoulder at the lower extremity, upon which
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