The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-07-06

being more injurious to the stock, IN
case of failure, but it has the one adj
vantage Of giving a quicker and
larger start to the new tree, In the
event of success, tor while the bud
ded tree has but one tiny bud to start
from, the grated tree may have one
or ia dozen whole branches, some
times even the entire top OF Tree.
There are several methods of graft.
ING, and to the details Of these we
will now proceed.
The most simple and therefore
most commonly successful is that
called ."gratling by approach" or
"inarching." For large plants it is
impracticable, but tor smaller plants,
one OF which at least is in box or
pot, it is invaluable. The two
plants, stock and scion, being brought
close together; wounds are made
upon each part to be grated, exactly
corresponding to each other, in other
words, plates of bark OF equal size are
removed, and the new parts thus laid
bare, are bound together in close
contact, with prepared wrapping
which keeps out the air. In one month
mot in two weeks as in budding if
the work has been properly done
union between the two will have
taken place; and then all that is neces.
sary is to cut loose the scion from
its original parent and bring down
it's foster mother to the level OF
the "child Of its adoption when a
new plant of the desired kind will be
the result, without injury to that
from which it was taken.
BY this method stems, roots and
branches may be united and fruit or
even flowers, be grated upon leaves;
in. short grating by approach" is
grating par erceAe'ace and affords
scope Tor curious experiments, such
as we have just indicated; expert
ments that any skilltul and ingenious
gardener may vary and multiply IN
definitely.
In some cases while the junction
between scion and stock is in pro-
gress, by this method, the plants are
placed in moist lighthouses mot bedsl
or under bell glasses, and if an accum-
ulation of too much moisture is care
fully guarded against, this plan is
good one as the union takes place
more surely and expeditiously. This
is the tavorite method Of grating in
cases where the plants in question,
either stock or scion, are too rare and
valuable to risk their destruction by
ordinary methods in the event OF
failure to knit.
And next we come to "whip" or
"tongue'' grating, usually practised
on small nursery trees. 10 perform
this operation in the most perfect
manner, the top of the stock, and the
end of the scion, should be OF equal
diameter, and therefore this kind Of
grating unlike the others, may be
done on smaller stocks. Both scion
and stock must be cut obliquely as
nearly at corresponding angles as 1t
possible to get them. The best way
to secure accuracy in this respect is
first to cut off the stock and then
place the extremity of the scion along
side and little below the oblique
cut, 20 scratch the line of the latter
on the scion, and then make a clean
smooth cut along the slope indicated.
Next, the tip of the stock must be
cut off horizontally, and a narrow
slit made, nearly in the center of the
s.oped face of the stock, downwards
and another corresponding one in the
slope OF the scion, upwards.
The tongue or wedge-like strip,
which now passes the upper part OF
the sloped face OF the scion, is not to
be slipped downwards in the cleft OF
the stock, the inner bark OF both be.