Janelle jotted down the next set of steps, when Professor Myers presented them. She picked up her Mahogany tree and placed it where her rootstock had previously been. So now they had to do everything again, only the opposite of what they had done before. Like Myers said, they were making two puzzle pieces that eventually had to fit together. Janelle was probably more worried about this task than the previous one. What if the two pieces didn't fit together? Blocking that thought from her mind, she tried to get back to positive thinking.

Before she made her cut, Janelle inspected her tree. There were some baby buds trying to grow and she made sure not to cut anywhere near them. Picking up her grafting knife, Janelle tried to reverse the process in her mind. Again she used her finger to mark the spot where she would cut. Taking her requisite deep breath, Janelle carefully cut the tree's stem at a 45 degree angle. This time, the cut went the other way, as they were instructed to do. Now for the part she liked the least. Janelle used her knife to make a small flap on her mahogany stem. When she was done, she put down the knife. Turning toward her new tree's bottom half, she brought the top half over and placed it atop the other. Hopefully the match would be close enough to work.

Now how, Janelle wondered, were they going to attach the to tree pieces to each other? She imagined that there was a spell for that, but she would have to wait until the next step in the process was revealed. While she waited, Janelle wondered what they were going to do with the leftover tree pieces. She was sure that Professor Myers had a plan for them.