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JSTew Mode of Inarching. 



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NEW MODE OF INARCHING. 



Various means are resorted to by gardeners to supply a defi- 

 ciency of branches in wall-trees, and with greater or less success 

 we imagine, however, that the following French mode, whicl 

 may be termed herbaceous inarching, so far at least as the scioi 

 is concerned, offers advantages over any other plan at present ii 

 use. It is adopted in the Society's garden, and consists in inarch- 

 ing the growing extremities of adjoining shoots to the parts o; 

 the stem from which it is desirable branches should proceed. A 

 small slice is taken off near the extremity of the young shoot, 

 and a corresponding extent of surface immediately below the inner 

 bark of the stem is exposed; the two are joined together and a 

 perfect union is very soon etTected. By this means tiers of hori- 

 zontals in young trees may be formed without disappointment, 

 and branches may be replaced in old trees more readily than by the 

 old mode of side-grafting or budding. — Gardenefs Chron. 



APUS AFFINIS. 



Described in the October No. by Prof. Haldemann, of Pa. 



