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operation is, just as the plants begin to grow, either in 

 spring or mid-summer. Place the stock contiguous to 

 the plant where the graft or enarch is to be taken from. 

 If the branches, where the intended union is to take 

 place, do not grow at equal heights, a slight stage may 

 be erected to elevate the pot that holds the lower. 

 Take the branch that is to be enarched, (the wood of 

 last or previous year is the most proper,) and bring it 

 in contact with the stock ; mark the parts where they 

 are to unite, so as to form a pointed arch. In that part 

 of the branch which is to rest against the stock, pare 

 off the bark and part of the wood to about two or three 

 inches in length, and in the side of the stock which is 

 to receive the graft, do the same, that the inside rind 

 of each may be exactly opposite, which is the first part 

 where a union will take place. Bind them firmly and 

 neatly together with strands of Russia matting, and 

 protect the joint from the air by a coat of close com- 

 position ; clay of the consistency of thick paint, tur- 

 pentine, or wax, will equally answer. Finish by fast- 

 ening the grafted branch to the head of the stock or a 

 rod. Many practitioners make a slit or tongue into 

 the enarch and stock, but we find it unnecessary, more 

 tedious, and likewise more danger in breaking. Ca- 

 mellias are also grafted, and budded, but these two ope- 

 rations require great experience and continued atten- 

 tion, and seldom prove so successful as enarching. 

 When they have perfectly taken, which will be after 

 the first growth is over, begin to separate them by cut- 

 ting the scion a little at three different periods, about 

 a week apart, separating it at the third time. If the 



