. Barry's Fruit garden. Fruit-culture. GENERAL PKINCIPLES. position until every jtoro of the cloth is filled with it. The person who ap})lies it to the grafts takes it from these balls, tears it in jneces tlie length and breadth required by the size of the stock, and two or three tui-ns of it around the graft secure it completely. This thin cloth soon decays, and yields to the enlargement of the part it incloses. We have tried tow, paper, and other materials, but find this the best. Having the cions, implements, and composition in readiness, the work is performed as follows: Whip-Grafting on t
. Barry's Fruit garden. Fruit-culture. GENERAL PKINCIPLES. position until every jtoro of the cloth is filled with it. The person who ap})lies it to the grafts takes it from these balls, tears it in jneces tlie length and breadth required by the size of the stock, and two or three tui-ns of it around the graft secure it completely. This thin cloth soon decays, and yields to the enlargement of the part it incloses. We have tried tow, paper, and other materials, but find this the best. Having the cions, implements, and composition in readiness, the work is performed as follows: Whip-Grafting on the Root.—For this purpose, seed- ling stocks are generally used, one or two years old, varying from one-fourth to three- eighths of an inch in diameter. The graft is always made at the collar, and, therefore, the stems of the plants are cut off at that point; the small tap-roots and any cunibrous fibres are removed, leaving them about four inches in length (fig. 73); they are then washed clean, and are ready for the opera- tion. The grafter then makes a smooth, even, sloping cut, an inch long, upwards, on the collar of the root, A ; and in the center of this cut he makes a slit or tongue, J?, 73. downwards. The cion, ^'S"^- ^^ ^'^ 1 • I- 1, ij I, ii „ Fi?- 73, tlie root: ^, the sloping cut; 5, the which should be three ^^^^ pi,. ,4, th; cim,: ^, tL .loping cut; or four inches long ii, the tongue. Fig. 75, the union of ciou and (fig. 74), is cut on the *'°'^i^- lower end with a sloping cut downwards, and similar. 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 Barry, Patrick, 1816-1890. New York, Orange Judd Co.
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