THE PROPAGATING HOUSE 



.Graft. 



lengthening periods, for by the end of that period if a scion is going 

 to die off it shows it, and the others can be seen to have taken. Then 

 as we remove them to the open stage we behead them carefully. 

 Only a very small percentage, perhaps five or six, will be found to 

 have failed, and these we take back to the place from whence they 

 came, and in due course they are planted out with others of their 

 kind. The successful ones, after about three weeks on the stages 

 of the propagating house, where they have been shaded, are put out 

 into frames, nursed for a while, and then thoroughly hardened. 

 During the summer they consolidate and 

 make a little growth, and in early autumn 

 are taken right away and planted in the 

 nursery beds, that is such as are not to be 

 grown on in pots, in which case those re- 

 quired for that purpose get a shift into 48*3, 

 when they are removed from the house to 

 the frame. 



STANDARD GOLDEN PRIVET 



We included the ligustrum (privet) in our 

 list of subjects, but this we treat somewhat 

 differently to the others. It is a much more 

 sappy subject, and we do not hesitate to 

 treat this as we treat the rose and behead 

 it before grafting. It is a quick plant, and 

 we do not dream of keeping it a full month 

 in the propagating pit, two to three weeks 

 being ample. It happens to be one of those 

 shrubs you can take liberties with, respon- 

 sive to conditions and certainly retentive 

 of life. The ordinary golden privet is 

 always in great demand and is easily raised 

 from cuttings, thus we never now think of 



f . . 5 . . . FIG. 6. Grafted 



grafting it ; but it is very popular in the Go i den Privet 

 form of short standards, and it is to fulfil 



this demand that we do graft it. To produce the stocks, we 

 plant a quantity of one-year cuttings of L. ovalifolium very 



