76 THE PARLOR GARDENER. 



CHAPTER VII. 

 GEAFTS IN THE PORTABLE GREENHOUSE. 



Of Grafting in general. Resources that it offers for fixing the Fu- 

 gitive Sub-varieties. Extent to -which Grafting is possible. 

 Tomatoes upon Potatoes. Rice upon Phalaris. Orange Graft. 

 Manner of Operating. Wrappings of Woollen Yarn. Appli- 

 cations of the above Process. Pontoise Graft. Grafting the 

 Camellia. The Camellia in its Native Country. 



Of Grafts in general. 



TJEFORE learning how to perform the different 

 JD modes of grafting which belong to the domain 

 of parlor horticulture, you may, perhaps, ladies, 

 wish to be informed what grafting itself is, con- 

 sidered in a general point of view. Grafting, 

 then, is, if I may be permitted to use the expres- 

 sion, a forced marriage, often very badly as- 

 sorted. Of this particular kind of forced mar- 

 riage, the consequences cannot be happy, except 

 when the two individuals, united without having 

 been consulted, are very near relations ; that is to 



