. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. Pig. 19.—Whip or Splioe-graiting. of drought on the one hand, and excessive moisture on the other, either of which would seriously injure or altogether frustrate the i^on. Take now a piece of the same clay, and placing it round the graft, squeeze it firmly between the hands, making a sort of baU that will not be liable to fall away. This is to prevent the moisture of the graft from drying up, and if the stock is worked close to the ground, , it may further be protected by drawing the soil aroimd it. Should very dry weather intervene, in the case of gra
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. Pig. 19.—Whip or Splioe-graiting. of drought on the one hand, and excessive moisture on the other, either of which would seriously injure or altogether frustrate the i^on. Take now a piece of the same clay, and placing it round the graft, squeeze it firmly between the hands, making a sort of baU that will not be liable to fall away. This is to prevent the moisture of the graft from drying up, and if the stock is worked close to the ground, , it may further be protected by drawing the soil aroimd it. Should very dry weather intervene, in the case of grafting at some distance from the ground, it is sometimes convenient and advisable to wrap some moss round the ball of clay, and even water it at intervals with a fine-rosed watering-pot, to prevent its parting with its moisture too rapidly by evaporation. Presuming that the stock is of greater thickness than the scion, a condition of frequent occurrence, ^ slightly different mode of preparation will be neces- sary. Instead of cutting stock and scion equally. Tig. 20.—Saddle-grafting. in contact, but this, being a weaker combination than is desirable, should be avoided. A slight modifica- tion of splice-grafting is that called Tongue-grafting. A little tongue is left on the scion to fit into a cor- responding notch of the stock. The object of this is to prevent the graft slipping down, thus spoiling the accuracy of contact between the coinciding cam- bium layers. This requires a little more skill and time, and is not much practised. Whip or splice-grafting is most extensively em- ployed for all kinds of garden plants, whether in the houses or out of doors, for fruit and ornamental trees, including Conifers. In Saddle-grafting it is most important that the stock and scion should be of equal thickness. The stock, after being headed down, should be cut at the top to form an acutely tapering wedge, with its point upwards. The scion should be slit down the middle some way, and a p
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