. Gardening for the South;. Vegetable gardening; Fruit-culture. GRAFTING. 73 firmly in its place, bind it closely with the cloth cov- ered with the composition. It is the neatest, most ex- expeditious, and most successful mode of grafting, where the stocks are of the proper size. Stocks, three-fourths of an inch in diameter, or even an inch, may be grafted in this way, but for inch stocks cleft grafting is prefer- able. Cleft Grafting is the more common mode. It may be practised on large or small stocks, but for the latter whip-grafting only should be employed. The top of the stock is cut off
. Gardening for the South;. Vegetable gardening; Fruit-culture. GRAFTING. 73 firmly in its place, bind it closely with the cloth cov- ered with the composition. It is the neatest, most ex- expeditious, and most successful mode of grafting, where the stocks are of the proper size. Stocks, three-fourths of an inch in diameter, or even an inch, may be grafted in this way, but for inch stocks cleft grafting is prefer- able. Cleft Grafting is the more common mode. It may be practised on large or small stocks, but for the latter whip-grafting only should be employed. The top of the stock is cut off carefully with a fine saw, and pared smoothly with a sharp knife. The stock is then split with the grafting-knife, and held open with the chisel of the same. A common knife will answer for splitting, and the Cleft Graft ^^^^^ ™^^ ^^ ^^P* o'Q^n for insertion with a wood- ^^^^ en wedge or a large nail of which the point has been ground down to a wedge shape. Sharpen the scion one and a-half inches long, more or less, according to its size and that of the split in the stock, cutting the lower part into a smooth wedge. The exterior side of the scion when sharp- ened should be slightly thicker than the other, that it may be sure to make a close fit there. Let the scion have two or more buds, of which one should be on the wedge and inserted just below the top of the stock. This often grows when the others fail. The main point is that the inside bark of the scion and that of the stock should exactly correspond at least in one place. To effect this, it is usual to set the scion so that its extremity falls a little without the line made by the continuation of the stock on the side in which it is inserted. One or two scions are set in the stock according to its size ; the wedge is then withdrawn, and the whole carefully 4. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illus
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