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house is used instead of a hot-bed frame they 

 must be plunged in the same materials, as this 

 keeps the clay moist, and generally ensures suc- 

 cess ; if convenient, grafting wax, made as follows, 

 may be used in lieu of clay : 1 Ib. Burgundy pitch, 

 ^ Ib. common pitch, 2 oz. bees' wax, and oz. 

 mutton fat, melted, and put on with a brush while 

 warm : in cleft grafting, for a description of which I 

 must refer to London's Encyclopaedia of Gardening, 

 article " grafting." Grafting pitch must alone be 

 used if the grafts are small ; this is a very nice 

 mode, but difficult to describe, and the same result 

 may be obtained by rind-grafting*, a very neat 

 method : before this operation the stocks must be 

 placed in the forcing-house for a few days till the 

 bark will run, i. e. part readily from the wood ; 

 the top of the stock must then be cut off cleanly, 

 and without the least slope; an incision, as in 

 budding, must then be made through the bark 

 from the crown of the stock downwards, about 

 one inch in length, which can be opened with the 

 haft of a budding-knife ; directly opposite to this 

 incision a bud should be left if one can be found 

 on the stem of the stock, the graft must then be 

 cut flat on one side, as for whip-grafting, and 

 inserted between the bark and wood, bound with 

 bass, and covered with grafting wax. In March 



* The best stocks for this kind of grafting are the Blush Bour- 

 sault and Rosa Manettii ; the latter I received a few years since 

 from Italy. 



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