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sand. Let the pots be plunged up to the rim in a bark bed, or other 

 brisk heat, during the time the roots are in a growing state, and give 

 a good supply of water. 



When out of flower, and the roots become dormant, take up the 

 pots and place them in a shady and dry situation ; allow the soil to 

 become dry, or nearly so, until they begin to grow again ; as soon as 

 this is observed, repot them, and plunge as before directed, and thev 

 will flower fine. 



ARTICLE IX.— ON INARCHING AND LAYING STOVE, GREEN- 

 HOUSE, AND OTHER CURIOUS OR RARE PLANTS. 



BV A FOREMAN OF A LONDON NURSERY. 



There are many of the most curious and splendid flowering stove, 

 greenhouse, and hardy shrubs, which are only to be propagated but 

 by the methods of either Inarching or Laying them, or if thev can 

 be struck from cuttings they seldom grow in a healthy condition af- 

 terwards. But a weakly growing species inserted upon the stock of 

 a free growing kind, will cause it to bloom far more profusely and 

 vigorously. An additional advantage too is afforded, by being enabled 

 to obtain a plant of considerable size in a short time. I have there- 

 fore, drawn up some practical observations upon the method which I 

 have pursued most successfully for twelve years. 



Inarching is a species of grafting differing from it in these par- 

 ticulars, that whereas in grafting, the scion is at once totally sepa- 

 rated from its parent plant, and the head of the stock is cut clear off 

 before the splicing takes place ; here, on the contrary, neither the 

 scion is separated from its parent, nor the head of the stock cut away, 

 until the union becomes so far complete that the first is unnecessary, 

 and the latter injurious. It is in consequence much preferable to 

 the common grafting, for evergreens in particular ; i^ is principally 

 practised as the best means of multiplying all the double varieties of 

 Camellia and plants of similar habits ; because their strong leaves, if 

 only for a few days deprived of their regular support, by being cut 

 clear from the mother stock, if not cohered closely with a glass will be 

 certain to wither and fall off; after which, there will be but very slen- 

 der chance of the scion's completing an union : it is performed as 

 follows : — 



Having provided a stock, which should always be some of the 

 coarser, free kinds, of the same genus of plants, and nearly of the 

 same diameter as the shoot which is intended for inarching ; cut a 

 thin slip, from two to three inches long, and about one third or some- 

 thing better of the whole thickness, smoothly off from each of them, 



