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be increased by seeds, which should be sown in 

 the spring, in pots or" light fresh earth, and 

 plunged into a mild hot-bed. When the plants 

 have attained some growth, they should be re- 

 moved into separate pots, and be replimged in 

 the bark-bed of the stove, where they must be 

 constantly kept. 



The other sorts may be propagated by planting 

 cuttings of the young shoots, in pots of good 

 fresh earth, in the spring or summer, plunging 

 them in the bark hot-bed of the stove. When 

 they have stricken good root, they should be 

 removed into separate pots of the same sort of 

 mould, preserving some earth about their roots, 

 replungmg them in the hot-bed, due shade and 

 water being given. They may afterwards be 

 preserved in a dry stove or good green-house. 



Such of the sorts as ripen seeds here may also 

 be increased in that way. 



The first is the plant from w hich Indigo, a ma- 

 terial much employed in dyeing, is prepared. 



This and the second kind also afford variety 

 in stove collections ; and the two others among 

 plants of the green-house kinds. 



INOCULATING, the practice of inserting 

 the buds of trees of the same kind into their 

 stocks. 



The most proper season for this sort of work 

 is, from the middle of June until the middle of 

 August, according to the forwardness of the 

 season, and the particular sorts of trees to be 

 increased ; but it may be easily known, by try- 

 ing whether the buds will come off well from 

 the wood or not. The most general rule is, 

 when the buds are found to be formed at the 

 extremity of the same year's shoots, which is a 

 sign of their having finished their vernal growth. 

 The first sort commonly inoculated is the Apri- 

 rot, and the last that of the Orange-tree, which 

 should never be done until the middle of Au- 

 gust. In doing this sort of work, choice should 

 be made of cloudy weather; as, when done in 

 the middle of the day, in very hot weather, the 

 shoots perspire so fast as to leave the buds de- 

 stitute of moisture; nor should the cuttings be 

 taken off from the trees long before they are 

 used ; but if fetched from some distance, the 

 leaves should be cut off, but all the foot-stalks 

 left, and then wrapped up in wet moss, and 

 put in a tin box, to exclude the external air. 



And the practice of throwing cuttings into 

 water is improper; as it saturates the buds so 

 with moisture, that they have no attractive 

 force kit to imbibe the sap of the stock; for 

 want of which they very often miscarry, and 

 disappoint the operator. 



It is remarked by Mr. Forsyth, that when 

 the Pear-trees which are grafted in the spriug 



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have not taken, he would advise the cutting them 

 off, a little below the graft, at a joint or bud. 

 The tree then throws out a great number of 

 healthy shoots ; all of which should be rubbed 

 off, except so many as are sufficient to fill the 

 wall; nailing those up, to prevent the wind from 

 breaking them. About the latter end of July 

 the shoots will be fit to inoculate, which should 

 then be done, leaving a little of the wood on 

 the inside of the bud when inserted into the 

 stock, and rubbing in some of the composition, 

 tying on the bass. 



Having grafted some summer Bonchretiens 

 with the Bergamot de Pasque (or Easter Berga- 

 mot) and Pear d'Auch, in the spring, most of 

 which failed, he cut them off below the grafts, 

 and in July following they had produced shoots 

 from five to six feet long, which he inoculated 

 in the latter end of that month with the before- 

 mentioned sorts, which all took. About the 

 begfmning of September he ordered the basses to 

 be slackened ; which being left too loose, the 

 barks began to separate. He then made them 

 be tightened, letting them remain till the fol- 

 lowing spring. About the beginning of April, 

 when he saw the buds begin to shoot, he cut 

 the shoots near to the buds ; but finding many 

 where the bark had not united, and some of the 

 eyes apparently dead, he took a sharp pen- 

 knife, and cut out all the decayed bark, rubbing 

 in some of the composition, in the liquid state, 

 till the hollow parts were filled up; he then 

 smoothed it off with the finger, even with the 

 bark of the stock. He also rubbed some of the 

 composition over those eyes that were in the 

 worst state, being quite black ; but with very 

 little hope of recovery. " To his great asto- 

 nishment, many of those which seemed per- 

 fectly dead, recovered, and by the middle of 

 July had shoots from five to six feet long 

 (many of the shoots which took well having 

 fruit-buds formed for next year), and covered a 

 space of wall larger than a young tree would 

 have done in eight years; all the cavities where 

 he cut out the dead baik and applied the com- 

 position, were, in the course of the summer, 

 filled up with sound wood, and the bark be- 

 tween the stocks and grafts perfectly united." 



" Three vears ago he inoculated some Brown 

 Beurres and Crasanes with Pear d'Auch, one 

 of which now covers a wall sixteen feet high, 

 and fifteen feet long, and has more fruit on it 

 this year than a maiden tree would have pro- 

 duced twenty years after planting." But he 

 " never recommends inoculating or grafting of 

 old trees, except when bad sorts, or more of any 

 sort is wanted for a supply : in that case, he 

 would recommend to inoculate or graft with Pear 



