20 DECORATIVE PLANTS, TREES AND SHRUBS 



thickly in a bed and in a couple of years they will have run up 

 single stems 5 feet high. These we lift and pot in October, 

 then a fortnight before we want to work them we bring them 

 in to a hot-house and stand them round the paths. In a few 

 days they are active and throwing out growths at every bud. We 

 rub these off, leaving the upper ones, until at grafting time we head 

 them back and graft at what we consider to be the height for which 

 the stock is suited. They stand just where they are, and in a fort- 

 night the union is effected. Their after treatment of keeping free 



A. The Graft. 

 8. Root. 



C. Grafted. 



D. Potted. 



E. Started, 



FIG. 7. Grafting Clematis 



from suckers and hardening off follow the usual lines, and by mid- 

 summer most of them find themselves either planted out in nursery 

 rows or plunged in pots. 



It is not our province to treat of the grafting of more obscure and 

 difficult shrubs, but only of those which are recognized market 

 lines or for which there is a very general demand direct from the 

 nurseries. Anyone writing a treatise on the " Art of Grafting " 

 could find much of technical interest to disclose as to the various 

 methods of stem grafting and root grafting, also of inarching, which 

 is but another way of grafting. It is a very interesting art, traceable 



