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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- 

 gi-afting. In either case the scion is 

 made fast to the stock by tying them 

 together 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 ^-igor- 

 ously, the stock is cut close over above 

 the point of union, and the section left 

 becomes in time covered with bark. 

 April is the best season for inarching, 

 as unless the sap is fully in motion, 

 the wounds dry instead of uniting ; 

 and hence, if the operation be per- 

 formed too soon, when the stock and 

 the scion are examined at the end of 

 the time when it is expected they 

 will be united, it will be found that 

 they do not adhere at all, and that, 

 indeed, the wounds have healed, sepa- 

 rately. 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 indepen- 

 dent grafting — viz. that the inner 

 or soft wood of the stock must be 

 placed exactly on that of the scion, 

 to insui'e their iinion. Inarching is 

 generally applied to Camellias ; and 

 any person who has visited Messrs. 

 Loddiges', at Hackney, Messrs. 

 Chandler's in the Vauxhall-Eoad, 

 or, in fact, any of the great Camel- 

 lia growers, in April or j\Iay, must 

 have seen some of the large old plants 

 of the superior kinds, surrounded by 



a number of pots of the common 

 single red, supported at different 

 heights, for the convenience of reach- 

 ing the different branches to which 

 they have been united by inarching. 

 One of the modes shown of grafting 

 has all the advantage of inarching, 

 the scion being nourished by the 

 water as it would be in inarching 

 by its roots. — See Geafting. 



Indian Corn. — See Ze'a. 



Indian Cress. — See Tropjb'o- 



LUM. 



Indian Fig. — See Opu'ntia. 



Indian Shot. — See Ca'nna. 



I'nga. — Leguminosce. — Beautiful 

 plants, nearly allied to the genus 

 Mimosa, with silky tassel-like flowers. 

 — All the species are stove shrubs, 

 and should be grown in a mixture of 

 loam and peat. They are propagated 

 by cuttings taken off at a joint, which 

 are struck in pure sand, under a bell- 

 glass, and plunged in a hotbed, or 

 tan, to afford them bottom -heat. 



Insects are extremely destructive 

 to flower gardens, particularly those 

 belonging to the order Lepidoptera, 

 which includes the butterflies and 

 moths. Some of the Coleoptera, or 

 beetles, are also very injurious, while 

 in the grub state. It would take too 

 much space, in a work like the present, 

 to give even the names of all the in- 

 sects which injure flowers ; but some 

 of the most destructive are mentioned 

 by their popular names as they occur 

 in the alphabetical series, and a few 

 words said on each. Entomology 

 should, however, be studied by every 

 one who loves flowers ; as it is of 

 great service to the florist to know 

 these destructive creatures under all 

 their changes. It is true, that insects 

 are, in most cases, only injurious in 

 the caterpillar state ; but often, by 

 destroying a chrysalis, or a moth, or 

 butterfly, before it has had time to lay 

 its eggs, the mischief which would 

 have been done by the brood which 



