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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTUEE AST) COTTAGE GAEDEXEK. 



t Felimarr 29, 1873. 



small per-eentage of potash, as the application must then be 

 c jusiderably increased, and is consequently rather more danger- 

 ous ; it must therefore be used with caution, especially in the 

 case of pot Roses. 



Thus enriched there is no absolute necessity to use farmyard 

 manure, but a httering-over after plantmg, or the following 

 autumn, may be useful for protecting the roots. For prize 

 Roses we must apply some nitrogen eveiy spring by watering 

 with the liquid diainings of dung heajjs, or dissolved guano, or 

 nitrate of soda, to act as the so-called stimulant, producuig a 

 strong and rapid growth, and rendering the other food more 

 soluble. Be careful to dilute well, and choose wet days for 

 apphcatiou. 



If with soil thus treated in a favourable situation and with 

 proper drainage, &c., you cannot vie with your neighbours in 

 frowLug good Roses, then I will cease to offer any advice on 

 the subject, and Usten with patience to the praise of fibre 

 shavings and scrapings or sawdust, and acknowledge that there 

 is something very peculiar and incomprehensible about the 

 predilections of this plant. I am glad to see that Mr. Radclyffe 

 does not express great faith in the u-on manure. I should like 

 to ask him whether a cUmbiug Rose in a very dry position 

 would have its roots kept damper or otherwise by placing a 

 slab of stone over it. I should also like to know where I can 

 get a weU-grown plant of Cloth of Gold Rose for a greenhouse 

 wall.— J. S. K. 



P.S. — I have just noted the Rev. C. P. Peach's communi- 

 cation. He has to some extent misunderstood me, as a perusal 

 of the foregoing wiU show ; but I will proffer a few remarks 

 on his views in your next issue. 



GRAFTING.— Xo. 3. 



The examples we have given of inarching in our previous 

 papers are those which are most generally adopted among us ; 

 but there are numerous other forms of it practised by the 

 French in constructing the fancifuUy-shaped frait trees met 

 with in the gardens of the bourgeouie in the suburbs of the 

 large towns of France, which we consider of Uttle use to our 

 readers. One example of this style is slown injig. 1, where 



the branches, following a regular curve representing a target, 

 meet at the summit and are united by gi-afting. In the centre 

 M. Forest, who is skilful in this sort of training, has foiined a 

 letter a by means of inarching. In the garden of M. NaUet, of 

 Brunoy, his name s .\ l l E t is reproduced in six trees. In 

 the same way M. Baltet has formed his own name by the 

 junction of trees by means of inarching. 



There are several other illustrations of this mode of training 

 and marching given in M. Baltefs book, but those which 

 _ are really of useful application are those that are thus 

 described. 



_ "We have ascertained the good effect of inarching the prin- 

 cipal branches of winged pyramids, goblets, and lyre-shaped 

 trees, cither isolated or in treUiswork, in the fruit garden of 

 M. A. Mas, pomologist at Bourg, and in the orchard of the 

 Ecole d'Agriculture at Soulaise (Atn) formed by Verrier. The 

 ninille cordon, particularly applicable to the Apple tree, ought 

 to be terminated by gi-afting it into another, each leader being 

 pruned at the extremity in a slanting cut, and mtroduced 

 nnder the bark of its neighbour at the curved part by the 



system of buttress-marching {fig 2) ; a continuous Une of small 

 trees well balanced is thus obtained. 



[M. Baltet then proceeds to give an example of grafting which 

 cannot be called inarching, since the scion is free and docs not 

 remain in contact with its parent. It is employed to fill up 

 a space between single cordons when the leader is not long 

 enough to reach from one to the other, and it is done by graft- 

 ing a scion of the length required, fir.^t the base into the 

 summit of the leader, and the apex into the curve of the neigh- 

 bouring cordon. The next illustration is ingenious if not pro- 

 ductive of great results.] 



Inarching Applied to Ixchease the Size of Fecit. — This 

 application of inarching is not veij widely practiced, because on 

 the one hand it requires some skDl on the pai't of the operato' ,, 

 and on the other success does not always reward the work. 

 We have meanwhile authenticated more than once its good 

 results, and particularlj' with M. Luizet, fruit-giower atEcully. 

 He exhibited beautiful specimens of it at Lyons in 1856 at the 

 institution of the Congres poinologique. 



About the month of June a young herbaceous shoot is in- 

 aiched on the stalk of a Pear (fg. 3). It is bound with a. 



woollen ligature without brmging the two parts too closely iu 

 contact. If the shoot continues to grow ^-igorously the ex- 

 tremity ought to be pinched, but if it sets at the extremity 

 then it is to be left alone. It is thought that the fruit, re- 

 ceiring by this means a supply of nutrition, ought thus to. 

 increase in size. When the fruit is produced on a fruit-beaiing- 

 spray, a nurse-scion can be gi-afted on the sjiray besides the 

 scion gi-afted on the stalk of the fruit. We have tried it suc- 

 cessfully. In the case of fruit with too short or too fine a stalk, 

 as the Api^le and the Peach, the herbaceous shoot on the 

 fruit-bearing branch is to be grafted by the ordinaiy mode of 

 inarching or buttress fashion, as near as possible to the point 

 of junction of the fruit on the branch. The hgatures of grafts 

 will be in these two examples tied in such a way that they can 

 be loosened without cutting should they become too tight. — 

 Charles Baltet, L'Art de Greffer. 



GAEEYA ELLIPTICA. 

 Gardens would be di'eary in whiter were it not for ever- 

 greens, and in those districts where the severity of the chmate 

 limits the number of such ornaments, the few that can with- 

 stand it are the more prized. It is fortunate that among these 

 there happen to be two or three of the most handsome ever- 

 greens we have. Hollies, Rhododeudi-ons, Box, and Juniper 

 are all very hardy and beautiful as well. The Holly, iu par- 



