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the roots of fruit trees and shrubs 

 is now becoming very general, and 

 will in a few years form a principal 

 item in the science of horticulture. 

 The work is generally performed 

 in this way in winter, and the roots 

 are grafted by the whip graft, and 

 planted out in the spring, in the 

 same manner as other nursery stock. 

 Grafting by the single eye is 

 Fig. 8. exemplified in Fig. 8, and is per- 



formed on Camellias, and green-house evergreens. It is done 

 when the sap is beginning to rise, which is generally in Feb- 

 ruary, and is performed in the same manner as the cleft graft, 

 before spoken of, with the difference, that the plants should 

 be kept moist, and in a growing state, to assist a speedy 

 union ; they should also be excluded from the sun, which 

 dries the grafts and deters their uniting with 

 the stock. 



Grafting by approach, or inarching, 

 may be represented by Fig. 9 ; which is 

 performed on evergreen plants, but more 

 especially the Camellia Japonica, which 

 the present cut represents as being grafted 

 by a side graft, with the end in a bottle of 

 water, to keep the sap in action in the graft 

 until it can unite. The difference of this 

 and the inarch is, that both the graft and 

 stock are kept on the stock until united. 

 The manner of doing it is to take two plants, 

 the one for the stock, and that to be inarched 

 from ; put them together in a place in the 

 green-house where they are to remain until 

 they are united ; proceed to place them so 

 that they can be made to come into con- 

 Fig. 9. tact, as seen in the opposite cut, supposing 



