whip graft

a graft prepared by cutting both the scion and the stock in a sloping direction and securing them by tying or taping.

Compare whip-and-tongue graft.

Origin of whip graft

First recorded in 1665–75

whinny, whinstone, whiny, whio, whip, whip graft, whip hand, whip in, whip roll, whip scorpion, whip snake

The parts are held only by the string, which, together with the wax, is applied in the same way as upon the whip-graft.

The Nursery Book |Liberty Hyde Bailey
Root-grafting, especially of fruit-stocks, is performed almost entirely by the whip-graft.

The Nursery Book |Liberty Hyde Bailey
If Grafting is done on small stocks, it is customary to employ the whip-graft, which is illustrated in the margin.

The Practical Garden-Book |C. E. Hunn
On the small shoots of young trees, the whip-graft is often employed, but it is not used in large trees.

The Apple-Tree |L. H. Bailey

The cions may be placed on the tree by several methods, but only two are commonly employed,—the whip-graft and the cleft-graft.

The Apple-Tree |L. H. Bailey

whip graft

horticulture a graft made by inserting a tongue cut on the sloping base of the scion into a slit on the sloping top of the stock