40 MONOGRAPHY OF THE GENUS CAMELLIA. 



kind, may be selected, which can best be spared for that purpose. There are 

 now several modes of graftings but we shall only describe those which are 

 most generally practised, and especially that, which the Belgians most com- 

 monly employ, to propagate the new and most valuable varieties. 



Grafting by aff roach y or I narchmg.—^h.Q kind of grafting most used, 

 the easiest to perform, as well as the most natural and most ancient, is cer- 

 tainly that called inarching.] This mode which can be practised at all seasons, 

 is, nevertheless, most commonly performed in March. 



In performing the operation, a lateral cut or slit is made in the stock, 

 so as to form a kind of tongue, or a portion of the bark and sapwood is re- 

 moved, an inch, or an inch and a half in length, and as low as possible. The 

 same thing is done on the branch of the Camellia, which it is desired to ob- 

 tain. The parts thus prepared are carefully united, — -precaution being taken, 

 that the barks of both exactly coincide, and they are confined with woollen 

 yarn, hemp, or strips of bass-wood bark, which have been first moistened. 

 \\n a few months the parts are united j but the portion of the branch of the 

 Camellia, which is united to the stock is gradually separated, by incisions 

 made at intervals, of from eight to ten days, in the following monthly order. 

 Camellias, inarched in March may be separated in August, and those on 

 which the operation is performed in May, in Octeberj being cautious to 

 commence the incisions a month before. 



Cleft Grafting. — This is the common mode of grafting, which every 

 body understands, but which was not practised on the Camellia, until the 

 immense results were made known, which our excellent friend, Mr. De 

 Soulange Bodin obtained, in his grand establishment at Fremont, near Ris. 

 That learned and skilful horticulturist made use of this method, in prefer- 

 ence to all others, because, at all seasons, it can be performed, by the aid of 

 the artificial means which is specially used, to excite a flow of sap in the 

 plants, and cause them t© vegetate. Mr. Soulange Bodin has substituted 

 this kind of grafting for that of Belgium, — an account of which we shall 

 give hereafter i it offers the same advantages, namely, economy of time and 

 material, and probably more certainty in the results. By the employment of 

 this ingenious method, a small twig of the species, which it is desired to 

 multiply, having on it a single bud, and grafted on a congenial stock, pro- 

 duces, in six weeks, a complete shrub. 



