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CHAPTER
VI
PROPAGATION BY MEANS OF BUDDING AND GRAFTING
THE vegetative parts of plants may be severed and inserted
in earth or water for the making of new plants. Under certain
conditions, severed parts may be inserted in other plants
with the intention of making new plants : this process is
known broadly as grcrftilzg. The part removed from the
parent and inserted in the foster parent is the c&z (or scion).
If the cion is only a bud with a bit of bark and wood attached,
the operation of inserting it is usually spoken of as bud&g,
and the term grafting is restricted to the use of a cion consisting
of a piece of twig bearing two or more buds; yet the operation
is all grafting, independently of the make of the cion.
Budding is really only one of the forms of grafting. What is
known as the g/m@ is the ixqMet1 work, - the cion set in its
new plant ; but sometimes the word graft is used in the sense
of cion. The plant or part in which the cinn is set is the stocll.
The whole subject of grxfting, comprising the knowledge and
discussion that goes with it, is known as graftage. While all
pla.nts can probably be grafted, in practice the operation is
confined mostly to trees and shrubs.
i. GRAFTAGE IN GENERAL
The reasons for grafting are two : (1) To keep or perpetuate
a variety true to name, which is not accomplished by seedpropagation.
Thus, if one would grow the Elberta peach one
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