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be increased by seeds, wliieli should he sown in 

 llie spring, in pois oF light fresh earth, and 

 jiiungcd into a mild iiot-hed. When the |ilants 

 have attained sonic growth, tliey should be re- 

 moved into separate pots, and be replunged in 

 the bark-bed of the stove, where ihey must be 

 fonstantly kept. 



The other sorts maybe propagated bv planting 



eiiltiniis of the vounir shoots, in pots of iiond 

 fit*' • 1- 



Iresh earth, m the spruig or sunnrier, pluiignig 



them in the bark hot-bed of the stove. When 



they have stricken good root, they should be 



removed into separate pots of the same sort of 



mould, preserving some earth abc>ut their roots, 



^cpiunging them in the hot-bed, due shade and 



water being given. They may afterwards be 



preserved in a dry stove or good grcen-liousc. 



Sueli of the sorts as ripen seeds Ijere may also 

 be increased in that wav. 



The lirst is the plant from which Indigo, a ma- 

 terial much employed in dyeing, is prepared. 



This and tlie second kind also afford variety 

 in stove collections ; and the two others among 

 plants of the grccn-house kinds. 



INOCULATING, the practice of inserting 

 the buds of trees of the same kind into their 

 stocks. 



The most proper season for this sort of work 

 IS, from the middle of June until the middle of 

 August, according to the forwardness of the 

 season, and the particular sorts of trees to be 

 increased ; but it may be easily known, by try- 

 ing whether the buds will come off well from 

 the wood or not. The most general rule is, 

 when the buds are found to be formed at the 

 extremity of the same year's shoots, which is a 

 sign of their having finished their vernal growth, 

 'i'he first sort commonly inoculated is the Apri- 

 cot, and the last that of the Orange-tree, w hich 

 should never be done until the middle of Au- 

 gust. In doing this sort of work, choice should 

 be made of cloudy weather ; as, when done in 

 the middle of the dav, in very hot weather, the 

 shoots perspire so fast as to leave the buds de- 

 stitute of moisture; nor should the cuttitigs be 

 taken off from the trees long before they are 

 used; but if fetched from some distance, the 

 leaves should be cut ofl', but all the foot-stalks 

 left, and then wrapped up in vvet moss, and 

 put in a tin box, to exclude the external air. 



And the practice of throwing cuttings into 

 w ater is in'.pvoper ; as it saturates the buds so 

 with moisture, that they have no attractive 

 Ibrce left to imbibe the sap of the stock ; for 

 want of which thev very often miscarry, and 

 disappoint the operator. 



It is remarked i)y JNfr. Forsyth, that when 

 the Pear-trees which are grafted in the spriug 



have not taken, he would advise the cutting thcin 

 off, a little below the graft, at a joint or bud. 

 The tree then throws out a great number of 

 healthy shoots ; all of which should be rubbed 

 off, except so many as are sufficient to fill the 

 wall; uaihng those up, to prevent the wind from 

 breaking them. About the latter end of Julv 

 the shoots will be fit to inoculate, which should 

 then he done, leaving a little of the wood on. 

 the inside of the bud when inserted into the 

 stock, and rubbing in some of the composition,- 

 tving on the bass. 



Having grafted some summer Bonchretiens 

 with the Bergamot de Pasque (or Easter Berga- 

 mot) and Pear d'Auch, in tho spring, most of 

 which failed, he cut them off below the grafts, 

 and ill .July following they had produced shoot-i 

 from five to six feet long, which he inoculated 

 in the latter end of that month with the before- 

 mentioned sorts, which all took. About the 

 beginning of September he ordered the basses to 

 be slackened ; which being left too loose, the 

 barks began to separate. He then made them 

 be tiiihtcncd, letting them remain till the fol- 

 lowing spring. About the beginning of April, 

 when he saw the buds begin to shoot, he cut 

 the shoots near to the buds ; but finding many 

 where the baik had not united, and some of the 

 eyes apparently dead, he took a sharp pen- 

 knife, and cut out all the decayed bark, rubbing 

 in some of the composition, in the liquid state, 

 till the hollow parts were filled up; he then 

 smoothed it off with the finger, even with the 

 bark of the stock. He also rubbed some of the 

 composition over those eyes that were in the 

 worst state, being quite black ; but with very 

 little hope of recovery. " To his great asto- 

 nishment, many of those which seemed per- 

 fectly dead, recovered, and by the middle of 

 July had shoots from ilve to six feet long 

 (many of the shoots which took well having 

 fruit-buds formed for next year), and covered a 

 space of wall larger than a young tree would 

 have dune in eight years; all the cavities where 

 he cut out the dead baik and applied the com- 

 position, were, in the course of the summer, 

 filled up with sound wood, and the bark be- 

 tween the stocks and grafts perfectly united." 



" Three vears ago he inoculated some Brown 

 Beurrcs and Crasanes with Pear d'Auch, one 

 of which now covers a wall sixteen feet high, 

 and fifteen feet long, and has more fruit on it 

 this year than a maiden tree would have pro- 

 duced twenty years after planting." But he 

 " never recommends inoculating or grafting of 

 old trees, except when bad sorts, or more (jf any 

 sort is w antetl for a supply : in that case, he 

 would rceouimeud to Inoculate or graft with Pear 



