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sap is quite down, carry better and are will have a tendency to do, when the 

 in every way more hardy. Let the rise of the sap swells the stock, thereby 

 shoot remain for three weeks in an out- diminishing the juxtaposition of their 

 liouse, or any other place, neither very , respective libers, and the whole be- 

 dry nor very damp, where neither wind I neath the lowest bud covered with 

 nor sun can come in contact with them; ' grafting clay, totally excluding air, sun, 

 the clay being damped with a sparing and rain. If the clay crack, it must be 

 hand, if the generality of the scions j renewed, not by shifting, but by filling 

 appear to shrink. During the first week up the crack. In about six months the 

 in March the head of the stock (in which clay may be removed, and the wound 



covered with grafting wax; this latter 

 ust be omitted." — 



the sap should be beginning to rise) 

 to be cut off horizontally, a slit made | on no account 

 in it straight downwards of a couple of Gard. Chron. 

 inches, or an inch and a half long, with- ! te j^ Flanders, cleft-grafting is adopt- 

 out injuring the sides of the bark. The gj^ ^nd care taken that the scion is of 

 scion is to be taken in the left hand, jj^g game diameter as the stock, or the 

 three buds, or two if the stock be not ^igf^ ;„ the stock made sufficiently near 

 large, being left upon it; the lower ex- \ o„g gjjg of t^g cross section, that tiie 

 tremity must then be cut in the shape jj^rk of the scion may fit the stock on 

 of a wedge, the back being rather the j^otj, sides. This mode is adopted in 

 thinnest, and the lowest bud about half grafting one sort of garden-rose upon 

 an inch above the thick end of the another. In grafting upon tiie dog- 

 wedge. In doing which, care must be ^ose the same practice is followed, with 

 taken that the bark be undisturbed, and jj^jg addition, that a shoulder is very 

 each scion so placed that when entered of^gn made to the scion, so as that it 

 in the stock, all the buds may poirit jj^^y rest with greater firmness upon 

 outward, or at any rate be in such posi- jj^g stock ; such stocks being often em- 

 tion, that the shoots from them may not ployed as standards, and therefore more 

 interfere with each other. The end of gxposed to wind. 



a budding knife or a little wooden or 

 ivory wedge may be used to open the 

 slit in the stock on one side, and the 

 scion, with the thickest part or front 

 outwards, must be placed in the other, 

 care being taken that the edge of the 

 inner bark or liber of the scion touches 

 the edges of the inner bark of the stock 

 all the way down ; the wedge may then 

 be removed and another scion entered 

 in its place, the si 

 the first : if the siz 



half the size of the stock, a shoulder 

 may be left to the former, and the 

 chances of success thereby increased. 

 Any number of scions may be inserted 

 in the same stock, but from one to four 

 at most are all that are desirable in the 



" Mr. Calvert, of Rouen, observes 



that it is the general practice to form 



the wedge in a part of the scion where 



there are no buds, but that he adopts a 



contrary practice, and finds that a bud, 



on the wedge part of the scion, greatly 



contributes to the success of the graft. 



By taking care to have a bud on the 



lower part of the scion, Mr. Calvert has 



, even been successful in grafting roses 



It being kept open by , ^j^^ ^j^- or splice method, which, 



•e of the scion be only ,^<thout a bud on the lower part of the 



scion, very often fails; but, with a bud, 



fails very seldom." — Gard. Mag. 



Cuttings are made to succeed by the 

 following treatment : — 



" Take a cutting of a this-year's 



present case to cover completely the [ shoot, removing all but one leaf, and 

 head of the stock, which is apt to re- j cutting off the upper part of the shoot 

 ceive much injury from the weather, if above the leaf, and reducing its entire 

 not carefully attended to. The object length to six inches. The cutting 

 of laying by the scions, is that the stock ' should be planted on the north side of 

 may be forwardest, and be enabled to a wall, under glass in a small frame, on 

 supply the sap and force them forward a newly prepared hot-bed, and in a soil 

 at once, instead of lingering while they of leaf'-mould, eight inches deep, well 

 perish from exposure and w ant of nou- soaked with water, and covered over 

 rishment. When the shoots are on, the with sand. Water is to be given, and 

 whole must be tied up with a bast liga- air abundantly, for the first four days, 

 ture to prevent the scions from shifting, ; lessening its admission daily, until root- 

 which from their wedge-like shape they ing is completed, which will be in about 



