Editing Fruit tree propagation (section)

===Whip and tongue grafting===
[[File:Whiptonguegraft.png|thumb|300px|Diagram illustrating the whip and tongue grafting technique]]
# Make a sloping cut in the rootstock with a "tongue" pointing upwards.
# Make a matching cut in the scion wood with a "tongue" pointing downwards.
# Join the two, ensuring maximum contact of the [[vascular cambium]] layers. Bind with [[raffia palm|raffia]] or [[polythene]] [[Adhesive tape|tape]] or wind around with a 5mm wide strip of elastic band (this is particularly successful because it keeps pressure on the cambium layers to be joined and eventually falls away without cutting into the bark as the tree grows) and seal with grafting [[wax]].