OF 
INARCHING. 
they are generally increased by | 
layers, though cuttings will strike 
in heat, under a bell-glass. 
Impa‘tiens.—Balsaminee.— Noli 
me tangere. There are several 
annual hardy species of this genus, | 
most of which are natives of Europe | 
and North America, and have yel- | 
lowish flowers ; but some have lately | 
been introduced with beautiful pink 
flowers from India. They are all 
distinguished by the seed-vessel | 
springing open when it is touched, 
and discharging the seeds. All the 
kinds require a light soil, and abun- 
dance of water; and they are all | 
large and widely-spreading plants. 
ImpLements.—Those requusite for | 
Floriculture are chiefly, the spade; | 
a three-pronged fork, with a long | 
handle, and one with a short handle; | 
the rake; the draw hoe, and thrust | 
hoe ; the spud; the trowel; the | 
dibber ; the pruning-knife, the | 
budding-knife; the pruning-shears ; 
the flower-gatherer ; the  short- 
grass scythe; and the roller. Be- 
sides these, there are various uten- 
sils, such as flower-pots of different 
sizes ; watering-pots, with tubes 
and roses of different kinds and 
_ sizes; a syringe; a wire-sieve, with 
the meshes about half an inch 
square ; hand-glasses and_bell- 
glasses ; baskets, wheelbarrows for 
plants, and mould; handbarrows 
for carrying large pots or boxes ; 
fumigating bellows ; a tin box for 
dusting plants with lime or powdered 
tobacco-leaves ; a small painter’s 
brush, for applying sulphur or soap- 
suds ; and a sponge for cleaning the 
leaves of plants. These are the or- 
dinary implements and utensils ; 
but on a large scale there are some 
others which may be added, such 
as the transplanter, averuncator, the 
garden-engine, the bill, the hedge- 
shears ; the last two of which are, 
however, seldom used by ladies. 
Inarcuine—A species of graft- 
ing, in which the scion is only 
6 INARCHING. 
partially separated from the parent 
plant ; in such a manner, that while 
it is uniting with the stock, it derives 
a portion of its nourishment from 
the plant to be propagated. For 
this purpose the stock is either 
planted near the parent, or if in a 
pot, it is placed near it in such a 
manner that a branch from the 
scion can be readily joined to the 
stock. ‘The stock is sometimes cut 
over immediately above its point of 
‘junction with the branch joined to 
it ; but more frequently the stock is 
left at length. The stock may either 
be united to the scion by notching 
the one into the other, as in notch- 
grafting ; or simply by paring a 
portion of the bark and wood from 
both scion and stock, and splicing 
them together, as in side-grafting. 
In either case the scion is made 
fast to the stock by tying them to- 
gether with strands of matting, and 
the graft so formed is covered with 
moss tied on, or with grafting-clay, 
or grafting-wax. After a certain 
period, the scion and stock unite, 
when the former is separated from 
the parent, and the stock is cut over 
a little above the graft. After some 
further time, when the scion begins 
to grow vigorously, the stock is cut 
close over above the point of union, 
and the section left becomes in time 
covered with bark. Inarching is 
only adopted in the case of woody 
plants that grow with difficulty 
when grafted in the usual manner. 
|The conditions of growth are the 
same as in independent g-afting— 
viz., that the inner or soft wood of 
the stock must be placed exactly on 
that of the scion, to ensure their 
union. Inarching is generally ap- 
plied to Camellias ; and any person 
who has visited Messrs. Loddiges’, 
at Hackney, Messrs. Chandler’s, in 
the Vauxhall-road, or, in fact, any 
of the great Camellia growers, in 
April or May, must have seen some 
of the large old plants of the supe- 
