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GRAFTING BY APPROACH OR INARCHING. 



with bast-mat and clay as usual ; after which a ring of bark is taken 

 off at Sj in fig. 232, in the same manner as directed for fig. 228. 



Inarching with partially-nourished scions appears, at first sight, to 

 belong to the preceding section, but it is placed here because the scion 



has an auxiliary support 



Fig. 230. from moist soil or water, till Fig. 231 . 



it adheres to the stock. This 

 mode is applicable either to 

 the side or crown manner of 

 inarching, and it only differs 

 from them in the inferior 

 end of the scion being in- 

 serted in a vessel of water, 

 as in figs. 233 and 234, or in 

 a pot of moist earth. The 

 vessel of water must be 

 removed from time to time, 

 and the base of the sub- 

 merged scion renewed by 

 paring a slice off its extre- 

 mity, and replacing it again 



, , . in the water. If the stock A stock prepared for 

 A scion prepared for in- , , , j j , -, inarching when it 



arching when it is only be Beaded down, a bud ig fwice the size Q f 

 half the size of the stock, must be left on it at its the scion. 



upper extremity, in order 



to attract the sap to the graft. The finer sorts of camellias are 

 sometimes grafted in this manner, as indicated in fig. 234. In 



Fig. 232. 



A large stock and a small scion united 

 by inarching. 



Inarching with a scion nou- 

 rished by its lower extre- 

 mity being inserted in a 

 vessel of water. 



