. Amateur fruit growing. Fruit-culture. 118 BUDDI^TG AND Fig. 9i.—Stock cut off and split and cleft held open with wedge-shaped etid of grafting chisel. open; ana c, a hook by which the tool may be hung on some con- venient branch. Cleft grafting is performed as follows: The place selected for the insertion of the scion should be where the grain of wood is straight. The stock is then cut ol. "square" off with a sharp saw and is split through its center, with the grafting chisel, to a depth sufficient to allow the scion to be put in place. The cleft is held open by the chis
. Amateur fruit growing. Fruit-culture. 118 BUDDI^TG AND Fig. 9i.—Stock cut off and split and cleft held open with wedge-shaped etid of grafting chisel. open; ana c, a hook by which the tool may be hung on some con- venient branch. Cleft grafting is performed as follows: The place selected for the insertion of the scion should be where the grain of wood is straight. The stock is then cut ol. "square" off with a sharp saw and is split through its center, with the grafting chisel, to a depth sufficient to allow the scion to be put in place. The cleft is held open by the chisel (Fig. 94) until the scion (Fig. 95) is cut and inserted, when the wedge is withdrawn, allowing the stock to close on the scion and so hold it in place. If the stock does not spring back so as to hold the scion firmly it should be tightly drawn together with a string. The numbers of scions inserted will depend on the size of the stock. If the stock is not over three-quarters of an inch in diameter one scion is enough to insert, but on larger stocks two may be put in. All the cut surfaces, in- cluding the ends of the scions, should now be covered with wax, as shown in Fig. 99. The Scion to be inserted in cleft grafting should be cut wedge-shaped lengthwise, as shown in Fig. 95, and its cross-section should resemble Fig. 96, in which a shows the outer bark and b the inner. Figure 97 represents a cross-section through a newly made graft, showing cleft in the stock and two scions in place (note how the edges of the wood come together), Figure 98 represents the scion and graft as seen in perspective. Figure 99 shows the appearance of the graft when completed and covered with wax. Whip Grafting is illus- trated in Fig. 100, in which A represents the stock with a slit at a; ^ the scion with a slit at 6; C the scion and stock put together. When finished all the cut surfaces should be covered with grafting wax, as shown in Fig. 99. In this form of grafting it is seldom that the inne
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