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mark where they can be made to meet easily without straining either. 

 Pare away with a sharp knife about two inches length of bark on both 

 stock and graft where they meet, and sufficiently deep into the wood 

 of each, so as to bring the edges of the bark of each into close contact, 



but beware of cuttiog too deeply into 

 the wood. Make a small tongue up- 

 wards in the scion, and downwards in 

 the stock, as in side grafting ; fit the 

 parts together, and tie with bass. There 

 need be no claying or waxing, for if the 

 operation is performed in a house suit- 

 ably warm and moist, junction will 

 soon take place. The appearance of the 

 plants operated upon will be as in the 

 subjoined cut ; of course one bushy 

 plant of a chosen variety may be sur- 

 rounded with stocks, and supply scions 

 for them all by a little management. 

 In about nine weeks from the time 

 of the operation the scions may be 

 separated from the parent plants, and 

 the bass removed. In cases where the plants cannot be brought 

 into contact, the scions must be cut off the plant to be propagated of 

 considerable length. The inarching is to be perfonned in precisely the 

 same manner as first described, and the end of the scion must be inserted 

 in a phial of water suspended to some part of the stock, as in the subjoined 

 diagram. As propagation by budding is usually and best performed in 

 July, we will defer our observations on that subject for the present, but it 

 is right to remark that grafting should be performed in spring, and the 

 side graft is the best. When the grafts are put on and clayed, the plants 

 should be laid on their sides on a bed of moist fermenting material, and 

 kept shaded till the grafts begin to grow, then they may be placed on 

 their feet, and the ties should be loosened. 



A SELECTION OP CAMELLIAS, OLD AND NEW. 



Six Cheap and Indispensable Varieties. — Double Whites — Chand- 

 lerii, red and white ; Corallina, dark red ; Hendersonii, pink ; Ochroleuca, 

 cream ; Donckelaari, rose mottled. 



Twelve Che.\p Yameties to add to the Abo at:. — Aitoni, red, single, 

 showy ; Althseflora, red, large, like a double hollyhock ; Candidissima, 

 white ; Chandleri elegans, flesli ; Conspicua, red, very showy ; Double 

 Striped (or variegata), crimson, mottled white ; Imbricata, carmine, 

 waxy, occasionally mottled ; Poeoniflora, large, pink, paeony-shaped ; 

 Splendens, scarlet, fine habit and free bloomer ; Tricolor, rosy flesh, with 

 scarlet markings ; Targioni, white, striped with carmine ; Yiolacea 

 superba, purplish red ; Woodsii, light rose, lasts a long time. 



Twenty-eight Fine Old and Cheap Kinds. — JVhite — Alba plena; 

 Candidissima ; Candor ; Fimbriata. 



Yelhwish White. — Montironi ; Ochroleuca. 



Striped and Blotched. — Adelina Benvenuti, white, blotched with rose ; 

 Albertus, carnation, striped ; Alexina, blush, delicately marked rose ; 



