Show PRACTICE OF BRIDGE GRAFTING OFTEN SAVES INJURED AND DISEASED TREES X aa N L how a wound Is repaired by bridge grafting prepared Pr epand by the fhe U united staten stated department of agriculture bridge grafting the use scions batons 0 or r mail email E limbs to connect the cani cambium blum above and below a large wound br bir girdled strip may inny ho be practiced successfully cess fully on almost anny kind of fruit treo tree that flint can bo be readily by grafting trees tiers girdled liy by mice inice or rabbits suffering tiny mechanical injuries or from froin might blight or other disease can bo be saved li ili many cases by bridge grafting the method also Is useful when large laige areas of bark lino have been killed 1 by sun scald and oilier in jurdes effective grafting to be effective bridge should be dono one in the evring before growth starts A it can bo be done after growth grot li stalls it 1 dormant asclon i for tile purpose can bo be se secured prepare the lie wound ouina lit in the tree by cutting away aay nil all dead tissue und and thor highly cleansing the injured parts it if possible sterilize sterll lc by Nv ashing with a of oc ot of mercury copper sul liate or some soine other antiseptic the It irregular edges of fit tile hie bark above file alia girdle tract or wound should bo be eat cut back into nn an even ed edge ge enough froin f the wound to ninke make certain that lle althy cambium Is under thi the baik por the select salons iclona from of the he previous seasons sea bons gro grow wili ill either branch brunches es vil cli grew grev tile the preceding pro season or water vater sprouts flint tire are only n year rear old the scions should be a little longer than lhnn tho the pace which alch la to hf be bridged so they will arch slightly over the central part of the wound bevel the nt at each end on the same side of the scion with a long ok sloping loping cut so flint the wedge shaped ends thus formed will be relatively thill anil and permit their being thrust well veil under the iio bark without danger of separating it t unduly from tile anni cambium nt at the points of insertion bertlon In the placing of tile bo saloni will be facilitated if the bark at the marg margins lits of tie the wound wonna Is 18 silt for a short distance at the points othere the ends are to bu be inserted importance of uniting CambI cambium LIM in trig the lie scions it Is of uio greatest flint I 1 he of the scions which la is expose imposed in tile tho sloping cuts at it 1110 ho ends lo ie broll bi ought glit into contact wit alth 11 tile tho dellill bluin that flint iles under fit lio bar amik k 11 nt t lio margins of tile wounded oun ded nico area the iho union of selon scion and tree c tun 11 n 0 occur cell r only illy cicro where tile rani cambium bluin layers of the two lomo come together the apelons may inny be secured lit in their proper positions if need bt be by b driving n dinall nall through ench end into tile trunk tills 11 will ll aid lit in drawing ilia cani blum of scion asclon and closely together the operation la Is completed by chor lhor covering tile the kirea hv by ille lie ends of at ille scions billil tit ho ging of the wound with alth grafting war ni of if waxed nud cloth or by some boine other bearis hint flint adequately will prevent it these parts from froin drying out some home operators tile entire scions lind nil with ith bolted molted Illel ted wax here the bridged portion Is 14 belba aco or near the ground anany operators consone conserve ino moisture liture by covering the grafts with barth bridging from the ground where the lie wound aund la Is so 10 large us its to in mahe orAl inary bridga grafting sible another method of bridging chiny ann lie be used two year old trees HIP fire planted about tile boso of 0 tile tree and their tops grafted lulu into its trunk above ne tile space which tins lins first arst bein been cleaned us its lit in the other in method ethod As tile the tops of 0 tile the trees are too large to ii readily in the manner described for scions V shaped vertical eitl nl grooves Kro oe ex tending through tile lie nrc are cut jut just above the wounded oun area in iho 1110 baric of tile tree to he be breatt tren ted d llie tops topi pt of the lie tr trees are arc slipped to correspond with the these grootes gro ores the two tire lire then lien accurately tilted together in such a manner us As to bring the lie iain all blum of one into contact vali that of the lie other biller small mills may he bo driven through the tops of the trees into file lie trunk to hold the tl parts firmly er cr the wounds incident to joining the lie tops of the lie small trees to tile trunk of the large one should bewell be ell covered cored with wax max to prevent present drylie out sometimes cord ts Is tied mound the trunk to aid in holding the tops cups of the lie young oung trees in proper posit position lon |