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will be found upon tlie main roots*. They are, however, very free 

 to grow under either circunisfauce ; only the former ones afford the 

 advantage of making more and stronger lateral shoots the first season, 

 and also better-placed shoots for budding upon. 



Stocks of diflerent sizes and heights are procured, in order to suit a 

 vigorous, or less so, growing kind, to be inserted by budding, and to 

 have some worked from two to five feet high. Care is taken to get 

 such stocks as are free from large knots, some such being found upon 

 the stocks when of several years' growth. It certainly adds to the 

 beauty of the tree, to have a straight free-growing stock. 



Having got up the stocks on a day that is not frosty, I have them 

 brought as soon as convenient, that the tender roots may not be 

 damaged by exposure to a cool air. 



In planting them 1 select a good soil about a foot deep, and have a 

 portion of well-rotted dung dug into it. The strongest growing kinds 

 of stocks I plant in one piece of ground, and the less so in another. 

 This is easily ascertained by observing what strength the lateral shoots 

 liave previously grown before removal. The necessity of this selection is 

 requisite, because if a very vigorous growing kind were inserted into a 

 small stock, the bud would take all the support, and grow to a single 

 shoot, or form a poor head. 



Before planting I have the stocks dressed, cutting clean away all 

 lateral shoots to the height at which I wish the stock to be kept, and 

 cutting off the head about a quarter of an inch above a bud, in a sloping- 

 direction from the bud. Any damaged roots are finished with clean 

 cuts, either by a knife or fine-toothed saw. The top cut of the stock 

 I always cover over with a mixture of bees' wax and pitch, to keep 

 out wet. 



The stocks are planted in rows at from two to three feet apart, 

 arranging the tallest in the back row, and the lower ones in the front 

 proportionably. A trench being made, the roots are regularly dis- 

 posed, and covered from four to six inches deep, treading the soil 

 gently upon the roots, and close up to the stem, to fasten it properly. 

 I then have a stake fixed so as to tie it to its place, and prevent its 

 being shaken with the wind. I have observed in some nurseries a long 

 stick, fixed horizontally at the height of three feet, and to which the 

 stocks were tied ; but this does not answer so well as each having a 

 separate stake to keep it in an upright position, the wind driving those 

 secured in the cross-bar manner in a falling direction. 



Nothing more is required till the stocks push shoots in March, or 

 early in April. 



NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Both in-doors and out, the flowers of this delightful tribe have been, 

 and still are, displaying their gaiety and loveliness in great variety and 

 distinctive beauty, rendering them the brightest of Flora's ornaments 

 at this season of the year. "Within a few years, very surprising addi- 

 tions have been raised by seed, both in this country and by our floral 

 friends in France and Belgium. Several of the newest and best we 

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