2i6 The Green-House. [Apr^ 



Grafting. 



Grafting may ftill be performed upon fruit-trees ; but 

 it muft be upon the lateft-fhooting kinds of the different 

 forts ; and it muft be done the firil week in the month, or 

 not at all. 



Graft hollies, with cuttings of the variegated kinds. 

 The firft fortnight in this month is the proper time to per- 

 form that work on thefe plants. 



The common plain holly is the proper ftock to graft 

 the variegated kinds upon; and the Itocks for this purpofe, 

 muft not be lefs than three or four years growth from the 

 feed ; but thofe of five and fix, are very proper for this ufe. 



Get Ibme good cuttings, or grafts, of the bell varie- 

 gated kinds ; they mull be fhoots of the laft fummer's 

 growth. Let them be grafted with exadlnefs, according 

 to the general method of whip-grafting. See Graftivg^ in 

 tbi Nurfe)y of March, 



Inarching. 



Inarching may alfo be performed now on evergreens, and 

 on any kind of trees or fhrubs that you defire to propagate 

 that way. 



This method of grafting is principally intended for 

 thofe kinds of trees and fhrubs which are not eafily raifed 

 by common grafting or budding, or from feed, layers, 

 or cuttings, or by any of the other general methods, for 

 moft forts maybe propagated by inarching. 



But this may be praftifed on almofl any kind of trees 

 and fhrubs, as may be thought convenient, either by way 

 of curiofityor otherwife. 



The evergreen kinds may be inarched any time in this 

 month, but the other forts generally fucceed beft when 

 inarched at the beginning. 



The Green -House, 



GivtKg Air to the Green-houfe Plants. 



THE green-houfe plants now require a large portion 

 of i)iQC air, and this article fhould be admitted to 

 them every day, when the air is any thing mild. 



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