GRAFTING, 65 
Stock and Scion prepared for Tuarching. 
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wounded branches lying across each other adhere and grow together. 
Of this, which is called inosculation, examples in the beech, the horn- 
beam, and the oak, are given in Mr. Loudon’s Arboretum Brilanni- 
cum ; and it is probable that mankind derived the first idea of graft- 
ing from observing instances of this kind. Inarching, as practised 
in nurseries, closely resembles layering. A branch is bent and part- 
ly cut through, and the heel thus formed is slipped into a slit made 
downwards in the stock to receive it. The parts are then made to 
meet as exactly as possible, and are bound together with bast mat, 
and covered with grafting clay, as in common grafting. In five or 
six months the union will be complete ; and the inarched plant will 
be ready to be separated from the parent, which js done with a very 
sharp knife, so as to leave a clean cut, and not a bruised one. The 
head of the stock, if it was left on when the plant was inarched, is 
then cut away, and the plant is ready for removal. It is, however, 
customary to keep on the grafting clay and ligature for a few weeks, 
till the plant is firmly established. This mode of propagation is very 
commonly practised in spring (generally in March) with Camellias 
and Magnolias; and it is usual in nurseries to see a fine new kind 
of Camellia surrounded by a sort of frame, on which are several pots 
of stocks of the single red, placed at different heights for the con= 
venience of attaching to them different branches of the choice kind, 
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