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provided he have an assistant to cut side shoots from the stock, 

 and prepare tlie scion; leaving him nothing to do but to break oft' 

 tl)e leading shoot of the stock, make the slit in it, insert the scion, 

 tie the ligature around it, and fix on the paper envelope. The 

 shoot made by the scion is little or nothing for the first year; but 

 the second year it is considerable, and the third a foot or more, 

 and most frequently from two to three feet in length. The future 

 shoots (says Delamerre) are truly admirable for their length, 

 their thickness and their great vigor. The most suitable stocks 

 are plants sown where they are finally to stand, and of four, five, 

 or six years' growth, the object being to make the graft three or 

 four feet from the ground, to avoid the necessity of stooping on 

 the part of the operator. Grafting in this manner has been car- 

 ried to a great extent by M. de Larminat, in the forest of Fon- 

 tainbleau. In the Bon Jardinier, for 182G, it is stated that 

 about ten thousand scions of Pinus Larico had been at that time 

 grafted on the common wild pine (P. sylvestris) in that forest; 

 and JM. de Delamerre informs us, in 1830, that the process had 

 been continued up to that time, at the rate of several thousand 

 trees every year. 



This mode of grafting was practised by the Baron Tschondy, 

 %vho gave it the name of herbaceous grafting, not only with the 

 pine and fir tribe, but with every other class of ligneous plants, 

 and also with herbaceous vegetables. It is very generally prac- 

 tised by the Paris nurserymen, and especially by M. Soulange 

 Bodin, though it is, as yet, but little known in British gardens. — 

 Jlrb. Brit. Mielinecz. A. J. D. 



Art. II. American Seedling Camellias. Translated from the 

 Annales d'' Horticullxire of Paris, by the Hon. E. Vose, 

 President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



In the last number of the Jlnnales of the Horticultural Socie- 

 ty of Paris, I find a notice by the Abbe Berlese, (of which I 

 send you a translation,) of some seedling camellias, produced by 

 those worthy and successful cultivators of that beautiful plant, 

 Mr. Floy, of New York, and Mr. Landreth, of Philadelphia, 

 and transmitted to Eurojte by Col. Wilder. 



Perhaps no one has paid more attention to the camellia, than 

 the Abbe Berlese. His opinion, therefore, is of high authority; 

 and it is a source of gratification, that we, in this country, are so 



