CHAP, rv.] 



INARCHING. 



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been grafted on potatoes, the potatoes perfect- 

 ing their tubers, and the tomatoes their fruit, 

 at the same time ; and it is said that the ripen- 

 ing of the latter was much accelerated. This 

 mode of grafting was invented by the Baron 

 Tschoudy, a gentleman residing at Metz ; and 

 the principal point in it which requires atten- 

 tion is, the preserving of a leaf, or two leaves, 

 at the extremity of the stock, to serve as nurses 

 to the graft. 



Inarching, or Grafting by Approach [Jig. 

 15.). — Though I have left this till last, it is, in 

 fact, the most simple of all the ways of graft- 



FlG. 15. STOCK AXD SCION' PREPARED FOR IVARCHING. 



ins:, and it is certainly the only one practised 

 by nature. In a natural forest, two branches 

 rub against each other in windy weather, till 

 the bark of both becomes wounded ; a calm 

 ensues, and, while it lasts, the wounded branches 

 lying across each other adhere and grow to- 



