. The American fruit culturist. Fig. 48 and wood may exactly coincide at one point at least in both,as in the cross-section of cleft-grafting, Fig. 50. A usefulimplement for the rapid and perfect performance of cleft-grafting is the grafting chisel, here shown. In Saddle-Grafting, the stock is sloped off on each side,giving it the form of a wedge,Fig. 51, «; the graft is split inthe middle, and each sidethinned away with the knife,as in Fig. 51, ^, until it willclosely fit when placed likea saddle upon it. The mostperfect way to fit the graftis to make a long slopingcut from the outer edge orb
. The American fruit culturist. Fig. 48 and wood may exactly coincide at one point at least in both,as in the cross-section of cleft-grafting, Fig. 50. A usefulimplement for the rapid and perfect performance of cleft-grafting is the grafting chisel, here shown. In Saddle-Grafting, the stock is sloped off on each side,giving it the form of a wedge,Fig. 51, «; the graft is split inthe middle, and each sidethinned away with the knife,as in Fig. 51, ^, until it willclosely fit when placed likea saddle upon it. The mostperfect way to fit the graftis to make a long slopingcut from the outer edge orbark, by drawing the bladefrom heel to point, till itreaches the centre of thegraft, and then another simi-lar cut completes the acutecavity for fitting the wedge of the stock. Fig. 51. Fig. 52. Fig. 53. Saddle-grafting. A sharp, broad, and PROP A GA TION. 35 thin blade is needed for this operation, A wax plaster, drawnclosely round the place of union, completes the work. Whenthe stock and graft are very nearly of equal size, this is a veryperfect mode of grafting, as large corresponding surfaces aremade to fit, and the graft receives freely the ascending sap. In all these modes of grafting, whenever a wedge is madeto enter a cleft, it should be thickest on the side where the fitis made between the two parts, so as to receive the full pres-sure of the cut faces at that side, as shown in Fig. 50. A modification of saddle-grafting, very successful in its re-sults, is thus performed: Late in spring, after growth hascommenced, the scion, which is much smaller than the stock,is split up, nearer to one side, more than half its length (). The stronger side is then sharpened into a wedge at itspoint, and introduced between the bark and the wood, a slightlongit
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