80 THE PARLOR GARDENER. 



Orange Grafts. 



Here are the young stocks, the product of the 

 orange and lemon seeds sown by you a year 

 ago. They are the size of a quill ; their wood has 

 consistence, their vegetation is vigorous ; it is 

 time to graft on them. Let us take for grafts 

 young shoots of a myrtle-leaved China orange 

 one of the prettiest varieties to cultivate in an 

 apartment, whether on account of its numerous 

 flowers, which are fragrant, but not too strongly 

 so, or on account of the fruits that succeed these 

 flowers, and which, preserved in sugar or in 

 brandy, are a favorite treat for a numerous class 

 of consumers. 



About half way up the stock, you make choice 

 of a leaf very green and well formed ; at the fork 

 of this leaf that is to say, at the point where it 

 connects with the stalk there is an eye, which 

 eye, if left there, would produce a side branch. 



With a newly- sharpened penknife, cut a little 

 way into the wood, above and below the eye, 

 making these cuts slanting, so that a small portion 

 of the stalk, containing that eye, shall be sep- 



