PROPAGATION OF TREES* 51 



ART. 6. -Inarching. 



Although inarching more properly belongs to the 

 green-house than the fruit department, it will be 

 necessary to say a few words on the subject in this 

 place. 



The object of inarching is to form a safe and 

 speedy union of any choice variety of hard wooded 

 plants or trees on to a wilding or stock of the same 

 genus or species ; and the practice is generally 

 adapted to those kinds that do not speedily unite 

 by engrafting ; this is greatly facilitated by inarching, 

 as the parts are always united, and a continued flow 

 of sap almost always ensures a certain union. 



The practice of inarching, is simply done by 

 planting or placing a number of the stocks to be 

 worked around the tree to be worked from, in such 

 a manner that the branches can be easily united to- 

 gether. 



The operation is done, in the spring, about the 

 same time as grafting when the sap begins to rise 

 in the tree is a proper time. The work is done by 

 bending a shoot from the tree intended to be worked 

 to the stock, where it is to be united in the follow- 

 ing manner. Place the part of the shoot to the 

 stock, then with a sharp knife pare off part of the 

 branch and stock so as to make a neat splice in pre- 

 cisely the same manner as the whip-graft ; the part 

 united is then to be bandaged and covered as the 

 graft, and in every way managed in the same man- 

 ner. 



